CTAN upload notification: png2pdf
Date: February 17, 2004 12:32:37 AM CET
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 Dirk Krause wrote:
> Name of contribution: png2pdf
> Suggested location on CTAN: /support/png2pdf
> Summary description: PNG to PDF converter
> License type: gpl
>
> Announcement text:
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> Png2pdf is a converter from PNG to PDF. Although one
> can use PNG images directly in pdfLaTeX I had problems
> sometimes when pictures had an alpha channel.
> Using png2pdf one can convert PNG to PDF, the alpha channel
> can be used for mixing against a user specified background,
> a background color from the PNG file's background chunk
> and/or to create an image mask. For PDF level 1.4 the
> alpha channel can be transferred into the PDF file.
>
> The project was moved to SourceForge in November 2003.
> This update contains new documentation pointing to
> http://png2pdf.sourceforge.net as primary location for
> documentation and software.
>
> No changes in functionality.
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Thanks for the update, I installed it.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
png2pdf – PNG to PDF converter
The png2pdf program converts PNG images to PDF. An alpha channel in the PNG file can be used to mix against a specified background color and/or to create a PDF image mask or PDF alpha channel. The program may be of interest for pdfLaTeX users creating posters, flyers having colored background, etc.
The package’s functionality is now replaced by bmpp, which is part of dktools.
| Package | png2pdf |
| Maintainer | Dirk Krause |