Hi. In a search of the World-Wide Web for the combination "1mar1994p1" and "download" I couldn't find a relevant download link that still works for the 1mar1994p1 version of Netpbm. But the good news is that you should not have to have the 1mar1994p1 version of Netpbm in order to get things to work in the proper version of LaTeX2HTML. Instead, to avoid potential problems, meet these two requirements: 1) Use the latest version of LaTeX2HTML you can find, which as far as I know is latex2html-2002-2-1, also denoted as version 1.70, dated as last modified on October 25, 2004 (Look for it somewhere within http://www.latex2html.org/.). 2) Use a version of Netpbm software packages compatible with latex2html-2002-2-1. For example, in a Fedora-Core-3-Linux operating system (FC3) I found Netbpm 10.28-1 to work okay; if I remember correctly, there are three such packages: netpbm-10.28-1...rpm (Install it first.), netpbm-progs-10.28-1...rpm, netpbm-devel-10.28-1....rpm, which can be located and downloaded from sites linked within http://rpm.pbone.net/. Without having tried the version 10.25-2 of Netpbm which comes with an FC3 distribution, I just guess that it might also work with latex2html-2002-2-1.

I have not downloaded and used a Netpbm package in a Windows operating system. So I can only hope that the "win32" version of "Netpbm Gallery" might include the needed Netpbm packages. Netpbm-Gallery software is downloable within http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7130&package_id_14464 by scrolling way down that Web page to the ''tools'' section and within that section clicking on the ''+'' beside ''netpbm-gallery....'' to expand the ''tree'' under it, and then for a 32-bit, Windows operating system by selecting, ultimately for downloading, ''netpbm_gallery-...-win32,'' which on January 13, 2006 read exactly as ''netpbm_gallery-1.4-pl2-win32''; note that a similar package for 64-bit-hardware computers using Windows operating systems does not seem to be available there. I don't know exactly what software packages are included in that Netpbm-Gallery, software download. (Two possible ways to find out are to write to the administrator of http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7130&package_id_14464 or to ask the Windows users of LaTeX2HTML in the LaTeX2HTML e-mailing list if all of the Netpbm packages needed by LaTeX2HTML in Windows, including packages such as pnmtopng, zlib, and libpng, are included or not in the Netpbm Gallery of packages. Otherwise, one could download and install the Netpbm Gallery and see if anything is missing or not when trying to run LaTeX2HTML. This matter could be very simple, if all of these packages are included in Netpbm Gallery, or more complicated, if they are not included in it.)

I read at http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/apps/pnmtopng.html that newer versions of Netpbm include a version of pnmtopng which is needed to make (Portable Network Graphics) PNG images. Assuming that to be true, it might be that a current version of Netpbm might also include the zlib and libpng packages which pnmtopng needs. But if not, the zlib compression utility for any operating system was available at ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/libs/compression, on January 15, 2006 as zlib-1.0.4.tar.gz. And should it be necessary to obtain one, at least in late 2005 or early 2005 there was a version of libpng for Windows at http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libpng.htm; after ''Complete packages, except sources'' click the hyperlink reading ''Setup; for installation instructions on the page http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libpng.htm beside ''Installation and Usage'' click the hyperlink that reads ''General Installation Instructions.'' Without knowing this to be true, I just hope that the version of Netpbm in the latest version of Netpbm Gallery will be compatible with and meet the requirements for LaTeX2HTML 2002-2-1. (Some of Web sites I quote might remain as they are in the respects I cite for quite awhile; but to allow for the possibility that they might change, I at least sometimes like to associate dates with my findings on the Internet.)

Pat


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