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6 dvipng - A DVI-to-PNG translator
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9 dvipng [options] filename
10 dvipng [options] [filename] -
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14 This program makes PNG and/or GIF graphics from DVI files as obtained
15 from TeX and its relatives.
16 If GIF support is enabled, GIF output is chosen by using the dvigif
18 binary or with the --gif option.
19 The benefits of dvipng/dvigif include
21 • Speed. It is a very fast bitmap-rendering code for DVI files, which
23 makes it suitable for generating large amounts of images on-the-
24 fly, as needed in preview-latex, WeBWorK and others.
25 • It does not read the postamble, so it can be started before TeX
27 finishes. There is a --follow switch that makes dvipng wait at end-
28 of-file for further output, unless it finds the POST marker that
29 indicates the end of the DVI.
30 • Interactive query of options. dvipng can read options interactively
32 through stdin, and all options are usable. It is even possible to
33 change the input file through this interface.
34 • Supports PK, VF, PostScript Type1, and TrueType fonts, subfonts
36 (i.e., as used in CJK-LaTeX), color specials, and inclusion of
37 PostScript, PNG, JPEG or GIF images.
38 • and more...
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42 Many of the parameterless options listed here can be turned off by
43 suffixing the option with a zero (0); for instance, to turn off page
44 reversal, use -r0. Such options are marked with a trailing *.
45 - Read additional options from standard input after processing the
47 command line.
48 --help
50 Print a usage message and exit.
51 --version
53 Print the version number and exit.
54 -bd num
56 -bd color_spec
57 -bd 'num color_spec'
58 Set the pixel width of the transparent border (default 0). Using
59 this option will make the image edges transparent, but it only
60 affects pixels with the background color. Giving a color_spec will
61 set the fallback color, to be used in viewers that cannot handle
62 transparency (the default is the background color). The color spec
63 should be in TeX color \special syntax, e.g., 'rgb 1.0 0.0 0.0'.
64 Setting the fallback color makes the default border width 1 px.
65 --bdpi num
67 This option only has an effect when using bitmapped (PK) fonts. The
68 option sets the base (Metafont) resolution, both horizontal and
69 vertical, to num dpi (dots per inch). This option is necessary when
70 manually selecting Metafont mode with the --mode option (see
71 below).
72 -bg color_spec
74 Choose background color for the images. This option will be ignored
75 if there is a background color \special in the DVI. The color spec
76 should be in TeX color \special syntax, e.g., 'rgb 1.0 0.0 0.0'.
77 You can also specify 'Transparent' or 'transparent' which will give
78 you a transparent background with the normal background as a
79 fallback color. A capitalized 'Transparent' will give a full-alpha
80 transparency, while an all-lowercase 'transparent' will give a
81 simple fully transparent background with non-transparent
82 antialiased pixels. The latter would be suitable for viewers who
83 cannot cope with a true alpha channel. GIF images do not support
84 full alpha transparency, so in case of GIF output, both variants
85 will use the latter behaviour.
86 -d num
88 Set the debug flags, showing what dvipng (thinks it) is doing. This
89 will work unless dvipng has been compiled without the "DEBUG"
90 option (not recommended). Set the flags as you need them, use -d -1
91 as the first option for maximum output.
92 -D num
94 Set the output resolution, both horizontal and vertical, to num dpi
95 (dots per inch).
96 One may want to adjust this to fit a certain text font size (e.g.,
98 on a web page), and for a text font height of font_px pixels (in
99 Mozilla) the correct formula is
100 <dpi> = <font_px> * 72.27 / 10 [px * TeXpt/in / TeXpt]
102 The last division by ten is due to the standard font height 10pt in
104 your document, if you use 12pt, divide by 12. Unfortunately, some
105 proprietary browsers have font height in pt (points), not pixels.
106 You have to rescale that to pixels, using the screen resolution
107 (default is usually 96 dpi) which means the formula is
108 <font_px> = <font_pt> * 96 / 72 [pt * px/in / (pt/in)]
110 On some high-res screens, the value is instead 120 dpi. Good luck!
112 --depth*
114 Report the depth of the image. This only works reliably when the
115 LaTeX style preview.sty from preview-latex is used with the active
116 option. It reports the number of pixels from the bottom of the
117 image to the baseline of the image. This can be used for vertical
118 positioning of the image in, e.g., web documents, where one would
119 use (Cascading StyleSheets 1)
120 <IMG SRC="<filename.png>" STYLE="vertical-align: -<depth>px">
122 The depth is a negative offset in this case, so the minus sign is
124 necessary, and the unit is pixels (px).
125 --dvinum*
127 Set this option to make the output page number be the TeX page
128 numbers rather than the physical page number. See the -o switch.
129 -fg color_spec
131 Choose foreground color for the images. This option will be ignored
132 if there is a foreground color \special in the DVI. The color spec
133 should be in TeX color \special syntax, e.g., 'rgb 1.0 0.0 0.0'.
134 --follow*
136 Wait for data at end-of-file. One of the benefits of dvipng is that
137 it does not read the postamble, so it can be started before TeX
138 finishes. This switch makes dvipng wait at end-of-file for further
139 output, unless it finds the POST marker that indicates the end of
140 the DVI. This is similar to tail -f but for DVI-to-PNG conversion.
141 --freetype*
143 Enable/disable FreeType font rendering (default on). This option is
144 available if the FreeType2 font library was present at compilation
145 time. If this is the case, dvipng will have direct support for
146 PostScript Type1 and TrueType fonts internally, rather than using
147 gsftopk for rendering the fonts. If you have PostScript versions of
148 Computer Modern installed, there will be no need to generate
149 bitmapped (PK) variants on disk of these. Then, you can render
150 images at different (and unusual) resolutions without cluttering
151 the disk with lots of bitmapped fonts. One reason to disable
152 FreeType font rendering would be to generate identical output on
153 different platforms, since FreeType uses the native renderer and
154 therefore can give slightly different output on each platform.
155 --gamma num
157 Control the interpolation of colors in the greyscale anti-aliasing
158 color palette. Default value is 1.0. For 0 < num < 1, the fonts
159 will be lighter (more like the background), and for num > 1, the
160 fonts will be darker (more like the foreground).
161 --gif*
163 The images are output in the GIF format, if GIF support is enabled.
164 This is the default for the dvigif binary, which only will be
165 available when GIF support is enabled. GIF images are palette
166 images (see the --palette option) and does not support true alpha
167 channels (see the --bg option). See also the --png option.
168 --height*
170 Report the height of the image. This only works reliably when the
171 LaTeX style preview.sty from preview-latex is used with the active
172 option. It reports the number of pixels from the top of the image
173 to the baseline of the image. The total height of the image is
174 obtained as the sum of the values reported from --height and
175 --depth.
176 -l [=]num
178 The last page printed will be the first one numbered num. Default
179 is the last page in the document. If num is prefixed by an equals
180 sign, then it (and the argument to the -p option, if specified) is
181 treated as a physical (absolute) page number, rather than a value
182 to compare with the TeX \count0 values stored in the DVI file.
183 Thus, using -l =9 will end with the ninth page of the document, no
184 matter what the pages are actually numbered.
185 --mode mode
187 This option only has an effect when using bitmapped (PK) fonts. Use
188 mode as the Metafont device name for the PK fonts (both for path
189 searching and font generation). This needs to be augmented with the
190 base device resolution, given with the --bdpi option. See the file
191 <ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/modes.mf> for a list of resolutions and mode
192 names for most devices.
193 -M* This option only has an effect when using bitmapped (PK) fonts. It
195 turns off automatic PK font generation (mktexpk).
196 --nogs*
198 This switch prohibits the internal call to GhostScript for
199 displaying PostScript specials. --nogs0 turns the call back on.
200 --nogssafer*
202 Normally, if GhostScript is used to render PostScript specials, the
203 GhostScript interpreter is run with the option -dSAFER. The
204 --nogssafer option runs GhostScript without -dSAFER. The -dSAFER
205 option in Ghostscript disables PostScript operators such as
206 deletefile, to prevent possibly malicious PostScript programs from
207 having any effect.
208 --norawps*
210 Some packages generate raw PostScript specials, even non-rendering
211 such specials. This switch turns off the internal call to
212 GhostScript intended to display these raw PostScript specials.
213 --norawps0 turns the call back on.
214 -o name
216 Send output to the file name. A single occurrence of %d or %01d,
217 ..., %09d will be exchanged for the physical page number (this can
218 be changed, see the --dvinum switch). The default output filename
219 is file%d.png where the input DVI file was file.dvi.
220 -O x-offset,y-offset
222 Move the origin by x-offset,y-offset, a comma-separated pair of
223 dimensions such as .1in,-.3cm. The origin of the page is shifted
224 from the default position (of one inch down, one inch to the right
225 from the upper left corner of the paper) by this amount.
226 -p [=]num
228 The first page printed will be the first one numbered num. Default
229 is the first page in the document. If num is prefixed by an equals
230 sign, then it (and the argument to the -l option, if specified) is
231 treated as a physical (absolute) page number, rather than a value
232 to compare with the TeX \count0 values stored in the DVI file.
233 Thus, using -p =3 will start with the third page of the document,
234 no matter what the pages are actually numbered.
235 --palette*
237 When an external image is included, dvipng will automatically
238 switch to truecolor mode, to avoid unnecessary delay and quality
239 reduction, and enable the EPS translator to draw on a transparent
240 background and outside of the boundingbox. This switch will force
241 palette (256-color) output and make dvipng revert to opaque clipped
242 image inclusion. This will also override the --truecolor switch if
243 present.
244 --picky*
246 No images are output when a warning occurs. Normally, dvipng will
247 output an image in spite of a warning, but there may be something
248 missing in this image. One reason to use this option would be if
249 you have a more complete but slower fallback converter. Mainly,
250 this is useful for failed figure inclusion and unknown \special
251 occurrences, but warnings will also occur for missing or unknown
252 color specs and missing PK fonts.
253 --png*
255 The images are output in the PNG format. This is the default for
256 the dvipng binary. See also the --gif option.
257 -pp firstpage-lastpage
259 Print pages firstpage through lastpage; but not quite equivalent to
260 -p firstpage -l lastpage. For example, when rendering a book, there
261 may be several instances of a page in the DVI file (one in
262 "\frontmatter", one in "\mainmatter", and one in "\backmatter"). In
263 case of several pages matching, -pp firstpage-lastpage will render
264 all pages that matches the specified range, while -p firstpage -l
265 lastpage will render the pages from the first occurrence of
266 firstpage to the first occurrence of lastpage. This is the
267 (undocumented) behaviour of dvips. In dvipng you can give both
268 kinds of options, in which case you get all pages that matches the
269 range in -pp between the pages from -p to -l. Also multiple -pp
270 options accumulate, unlike -p and -l. The - separator can also be
271 :. Note that -pp -1 will be interpreted as "all pages up to and
272 including 1", if you want a page numbered -1 (only the table of
273 contents, say) put -pp -1--1, or more readable, -pp -1:-1.
274 -q* Run quietly. Don't chatter about pages converted, etc. to standard
276 output; report no warnings (only errors) to standard error.
277 -Q num
279 Set the quality to num. That is, choose the number of antialiasing
280 levels for bitmapped fonts (PK), to be num*num+1. The default value
281 is 4 which gives 17 levels of antialiasing for antialiased fonts
282 from these two. If FreeType is available, its rendering is
283 unaffected by this option.
284 -r* Toggle output of pages in reverse/forward order. By default, the
286 first page in the DVI is output first.
287 --strict*
289 The program exits when a warning occurs. Normally, dvipng will
290 output an image in spite of a warning, but there may be something
291 missing in this image. One reason to use this option would be if
292 you have a more complete but slower fallback converter. See the
293 --picky option above for a list of when warnings occur.
294 -T image_size
296 Set the image size to image_size which can be either of bbox,
297 tight, or a comma-separated pair of dimensions hsize,vsize such as
298 .1in,.3cm. The default is bbox which produces a PNG that includes
299 all ink put on the page and in addition the DVI origin, located 1in
300 from the top and 1in from the left edge of the paper. This usually
301 gives whitespace above and to the left in the produced image. The
302 value tight will make dvipng only include all ink put on the page,
303 producing neat images.
304 --truecolor*
306 This will make dvipng generate truecolor output. Note that
307 truecolor output is automatic if you include an external image in
308 your DVI, e.g., via a PostScript special (i.e., the graphics or
309 graphicx package). This switch is overridden by the --palette
310 switch.
311 -v* Enable verbose operation. This will currently indicate what fonts
313 is used, in addition to the usual output.
314 --width*
316 Report the width of the image. See also --height and --depth.
317 -x num
319 This option is deprecated; it should not be used. It is much better
320 to select the output resolution directly with the -D option. This
321 option sets the magnification ratio to num/1000 and overrides the
322 magnification specified in the DVI file. Must be between 10 and
323 100000. It is recommended that you use standard magstep values
324 (1095, 1200, 1440, 1728, 2074, 2488, 2986, and so on) to help
325 reduce the total number of PK files generated. num may be a real
326 number, not an integer, for increased precision.
327 -z num
329 Set the PNG compression level to num. This option is enabled if
330 your libgd is new enough. The default compression level is 1, which
331 selects maximum speed at the price of slightly larger PNGs. For an
332 older libgd, the hard-soldered value 5 is used. The include file
333 png.h says "Currently, valid values range from 0 - 9, corresponding
334 directly to the zlib compression levels 0 - 9 (0 - no compression,
335 9 - "maximal" compression). Note that tests have shown that zlib
336 compression levels 3-6 usually perform as well as level 9 for PNG
337 images, and do considerably fewer calculations. In the future,
338 these values may not correspond directly to the zlib compression
339 levels."
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342 The full manual is accessible in info format, on most systems by typing
343 info dvipng
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347 This program is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License
348 version 3, see the COPYING file in the dvipng distribution or
349 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
350 Copyright (c) 2002-2015, 2019 Jan-AAke Larsson
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