[pdftex] CTAN upload notification: png2pdf

Martin Schröder martin at oneiros.de
Tue Feb 17 02:01:49 CET 2004


On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 Dirk Krause wrote:

 > Name of contribution: png2pdf
 > Suggested location on CTAN: /support/png2pdf
 > Summary description: PNG to PDF converter
 > License type: gpl
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Png2pdf is a converter from PNG to PDF. Although one
 > can use PNG images directly in pdfLaTeX I had problems
 > sometimes when pictures had an alpha channel.
 > Using png2pdf one can convert PNG to PDF, the alpha channel
 > can be used for mixing against a user specified background,
 > a background color from the PNG file's background chunk
 > and/or to create an image mask. For PDF level 1.4 the
 > alpha channel can be transferred into the PDF file.
 >
 > The project was moved to SourceForge in November 2003.
 > This update contains new documentation pointing to
 > http://png2pdf.sourceforge.net as primary location for
 > documentation and software.
 >
 > No changes in functionality.
 >
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schöpf

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