On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Dirk Krause submitted version 2.0.0 of the
bmeps
package.
Location on CTAN: /support/bmeps Summary description: Converter from PNG/JPEG/Tgb81AIFF/NetPBM to EPS and PDF License type: bsd
Announcement text:
The bmeps program was rewritten completely. Advantages from a users point of view:
- Bmeps can produce PS/EPS and PDF now.
- Easier configuration. Simply type bmeps -leps2 input.png output.eps instead of the former bmeps -p 2 -c -e r8 input.png output.eps
- Better compression:
- Use of the multiple data sources feature allows run-length compression of horizontal lines in the same color. Previous versions allowed run-length compression only for gray lines.
- Pass-through of JPEG files. If bmeps successfully analyzes a JPEG file it uses the file contents directly as DCT-encoded data and only adds ASCII-Hex- or ASCII85-encoding. If the analysis function fails the program uses the JPEG library to read the image and uses the combination of run-length-, flate- and ASCII-Hex/ASCII85-encoding to produce output.
Advantages from my point of view:
- Using the dklibs libary set allows to combine different encoding/compression methods easier than in previous versions of bmeps.
- Grouping image reading functions in a separated library (dkbif library from the dklibs library set) makes it easier to add new file types.
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf