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<entry id="dvipng"
       datestamp="2003/08/22"
       modifier="ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org">
  <about>
    <name>dvipng</name>
    <caption>A fast DVI to PNG converter.</caption>
    <author>
      <name>Janke Larsson</name>
      <email>jalar@mai.liu.se</email>
    </author>
    <license type="gpl"/>
    <version>
      <number>0.6</number>
    </version>
  </about>
  <description>
    <abstract> This program makes PNG graphics from DVI files as
      obtained from TeX and its relatives. Its benefits include its
      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 and
      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), and it supports PK, VF and Type1 fonts,
      color specials, simple PostScript inclusion 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.
    </abstract>
  </description>
  <distribution>
    <ctan>dviware/dvipng</ctan>
  </distribution>
</entry>
