[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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