A new packge has been installed on tug.ctan.org and it should make its way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two.
Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.
Name of contribution: dvipng Author's name: Jan-Åke Larsson Location on CTAN: dviware/dvipng Summary description: A fast DVI to PNG converter License type: gpl
Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This program makes PNG graphics from DVI files as obtained from TeX and its relatives. Its benefits include
* Speed. It is the fastest bitmap-rendering code for DVI files known to the author. On a fairly low-end laptop, it takes less than a second to generate 150 one-formula images.
* It does not read the postamble, so it can be started before TeX finishes. There is a -follow switch that makes dvipng wait at EOF for further output, unless it finds the POST marker that indicates the end of the DVI.
* It supports PK and VF fonts, color specials, and more.
The motivation for this project is preview-latex, a previewing tool for LaTeX in emacs, but since dvipng can be independently useful, a separate package is provided. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------