[l2h] Fwd: Problems with anti-aliased equations

[Julius Smith]

I would suggest studying the output of "latex2html -debug ..." and isolate
the failing step.  I would imagine the problem is somewhere in netpbm or
your font files.

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 5:35 AM Steve Phelps <phelps.sg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to convert a latex paper into html using latex2html and I am
> having difficulty getting the equations to look acceptable.  The main
> problem appears to be anti-aliasing.  If I enable antialiasing using the
> -antialias_text option, the equations are mostly ok, but some symbols are
> completely obscured (strangely, different symbols are effected on each
> compilation, which I assume has something to do with the use of a PRNG in
> the anti-aliasing algorithm).
>
> Here are some examples of the problem:
>
> [image: Inline images 2][image: Inline images 4][image: Inline images 3]
>
>
> If I disable anti-aliasing by specifying -noantialias_text, this resolves
> the problem, but of course the quality of the rendering is then not
> suitable for publication.
>
> The command I am using is given below:
>
> ~~~
> latex2html -split 0 -dir HTML -no_navigation -noaddress -info ""
> -antialias_text -math  -html_version=4.01,math,unicode trust-eps_PRE.tex
> ~~~
>
> Version information for latex2html, latex and is:
>
> ### Latex2html version information
>
> latex2html version: 2008 (1.71)
>
> ### Latex version information
>
> pdfTeX 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013/Debian)
> kpathsea version 6.1.1
> Copyright 2013 Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).
> Compiled with libpng 1.2.49; using libpng 1.2.50
> Compiled with zlib 1.2.8; using zlib 1.2.8
> Compiled with poppler version 0.24.5
>
> ### Linux version information
>
> Linux Mint 17.3 KDE
> 3.19.0-32-generic #37~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 22 09:41:40 UTC 2015
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>
> Any help greatly appreciated,
> Steve.
>
>
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