On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 Norman Gray submitted version 0.13 of his package
dvi2bitmap
to CTAN.
dvi2bitmap is a utility to convert TeX DVI files directly to bitmaps, without going through the complicated (and slow!) route of conversion via PostScript and PNM. The prime motivation for this is to prepare mathematical equations for inclusion in HTML files but there are many other uses beyond that. It can generate XBM and GIF bitmaps, plus PNG, if you have the libpng library installed. It uses the same kpathsea font-searching library as other TeX programs, again as long as you have the appropriate library installed. The program is written in C++, and incidentally provides a good object interface for DVI and PK files.
Location on CTAN: dviware/dvi2bitmap License type: gpl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New stable release. Mainly bugfix changes to 0.12, but the source has moved to sourceforge, requiring a number of build system tweaks.
See also <dvi2bitmap.sourceforge.net> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks for the update.
For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf