CTAN update: dvipng
Date: February 6, 2025 2:41:02 PM CET
Jan-Åke Larsson submitted an update to the
dvipng
package.
Version: 1.18 2025-02-02
License: lgpl3
Summary description: A fast DVI to PNG/GIF converter
Announcement text:
Release notes for version 1.18 of the dvipng package: This program makes PNG graphics from DVI files as obtained from TeX and its relatives. This is a bugfix release that removes division-by-zero errors from faulty DVI, avoids unneeded GhostScript calls, and gives more informative error messages for missing image files Report any bugs you find, see README for instructions.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/dvipng The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/dviware/dvipng/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs
Release notes for version 1.18 of the dvipng package: This program makes PNG graphics from DVI files as obtained from TeX and its relatives. This is a bugfix release that removes division-by-zero errors from faulty DVI, avoids unneeded GhostScript calls, and gives more informative error messages for missing image files Report any bugs you find, see README for instructions.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/dvipng The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/dviware/dvipng/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs
dvipng – A fast DVI to PNG/GIF converter
This program makes PNG and/or GIF graphics from DVI files as obtained from TeX and its relatives. Its benefits include:
- Speed. It offers very fast rendering of DVI as bitmap files, which makes it suitable for generating large amounts of images on-the-fly, as needed in preview-latex, WeBWorK and others;
- It does not read the postamble, so it can be started before TeX finishes. There is a --follow switch that makes dvipng wait at end-of-file for further output, unless it finds the POST marker that indicates the end of the DVI;
- Interactive query of options. dvipng can read options interactively through stdin, and all options are usable. It is even possible to change the input file through this interface.
- Support for PK, VF, PostScript Type1, and TrueType fonts, colour specials, and inclusion of PostScript, PNG, JPEG or GIF images.
| Package | dvipng |
| Version | 1.18 2025-02-02 |
| Copyright | 2002–2020 Jan-Åke Larsson |
| Maintainer | Jan-Åke Larsson |