[texhax] How do I generate a .jpg/.gif/.png from TeX ?
John Palmer
johnp at palmyra.uklinux.net
Mon Dec 24 12:38:10 CET 2007
On Sunday 23 December 2007 22:25:18 Aaron Gray wrote:
> generate a JPEG, GIF, or PNG file
This is how I do it for my spotmaps of archaeological finds: details recently
revised. Adjust the constants to your preference. This currently runs on
Ubuntu Feisty. I don't pipe, so that I can inspect the intermediate stages.
latex $NAME
dvips -f <$NAME.dvi >$NAME.ps
# convert this to pgm (I am working in black and white)
pstopnm -xsize 1000 -pgm $NAME.ps # 2007-12-14
# trim empty margins
pnmcrop ${NAME}001.pgm >$NAME.pgm # 2007-12-14
# scale : it is worth doing this anyway, as pnmscale provides anti-aliasing.
pnmscale 0.6 $NAME.pgm >${NAME}s.pgm # 2007-12-14
# and then to png
pnmtopng ${NAME}s.pgm >$NAME.png # 2007-12-14
Happy Christmas.
John
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John Palmer
Preston near Weymouth, Dorset, England
e-mail: johnp at bcs.org.uk (plain text preferred)
website: http://www.palmyra.uklinux.net/
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