[XeTeX] png output?

[Moritz Angermann]

Hi Jonathan,

a further digging revealed that FT2 is optional but used if available
for ttf and ps fonts. So lucky me it should be easier :)

kindest regards,
 Moritz

On 2/19/08, Moritz Angermann <moritz.angermann at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> I've already contacted the author of dvipng though I haven't yet got a reply.
> a quick glance at the code one sees references to freetype.
>
> I'll have to study more dvipng code until I have a clear idea abou it.
>
> Thanks for the hints where to find the xdv spec. I have to admit I'm
> not very familiar with the dvi format, so I've got quite a bit work to
> do.
>
> kindest regards,
>  Moritz
>
> On 2/19/08, Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew at sil.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 19 Feb 2008, at 7:35 am, Moritz Angermann wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Jonathan,
> > >
> > > The idea to enhence dvipng came to my mind too, though I have no idea
> > > where to start and what size that project would take. I'd be glad for
> > > any hints.
> >
> > The first step would be to try contacting the author, I think.
> >
> > The xetex extensions to DVI format are largely documented in the
> > xetex source code; then you can also look at the source of xdv2pdf
> > and/or xdvipdfmx to see how the added opcodes are handled there.
> > There are only a few of them: an extended font definition code for
> > platform-native fonts; an operation to set an array of glyphs with
> > positioning information; and the opcode to include a graphic.
> >
> > Does dvipng use Freetype2 to render PostScript and TrueType fonts? If
> > that functionality is already in place, adding xetex support
> > shouldn't be very hard, I think. If it's not using FT2, then it'll be
> > a bigger extension.
> >
> > JK
> >
> > >
> > > kindest regards,
> > >  Moritz
> > >
> > > On 2/18/08, Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew at sil.org> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On 18 Feb 2008, at 8:11 pm, Moritz Angermann wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Dear ML,
> > >>>
> > >>> what is the prefered way to produce PNGs from XeTeX? For LaTeX
> > >>> there's
> > >>> the dvipng tool but that one deals only with dvi's up to format 2
> > >>> not
> > >>> 5, wich is what xdv is.
> > >>
> > >> I don't know of any tool to do this directly (though enhancing dvipng
> > >> to support xetex's output would be a possible project if anyone cares
> > >> to work on it).
> > >>
> > >> However, you should be able to generate PNG from PDF with
> > >> ImageMagick's "convert" tool or another graphics utility.
> > >>
> > >> JK
> > >>
> > >>
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