[texhax] JPEG preview of XeLaTeX page?
Peter Davis
pfd at pfdstudio.com
Wed Jul 6 23:40:08 CEST 2011
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de>wrote:
> On 2011-07-06 at 16:56:57 -0400, Peter Davis wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Reinhard Kotucha <
> reinhard.kotucha at web.de>wrote:
> >
> > > On 2011-07-06 at 15:00:25 -0400, Peter Davis wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is there a way to get a JPEG preview of an XeLaTeX page? I know
> > > > there are various DVI viewers that can generate raster previews,
> > > > but I don't know if there are any for XDVI, and I don't know if
> > > > there's a way to capture a page preview as a JPEG. Is there a
> > > > known way to do this?
> > >
> > > The sole purpose of XDVI is to provide raster previews.
> >
> > Not also to be converted to PDF?
>
> Arrrgh, you are talking about the file format, I had the previewer in
> mind. Sorry.
>
Reinhard,
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I need to be able to get a JPEG preview as well as
a final PDF document. Of course, the JPEG preview should look like the
final PDF, within the bounds of what the resolution can support. I just
want to be able to get the JPEG from the same source file.
> I don't know whether dvipng understands XDVI, but if you create a PDF
> file, you can use ghostscript in order to create bitmaps.
>
I'll experiment with dvipng.
Thanks,
-pd
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