On Sun 10 Dec 2023 at 17:24:46 (+0000), Stefano Antonelli wrote:
> On Sun, 2023-12-10 at 09:30 +0100, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> > There is simply not "png" backend. The three available backends are
> > "ps" (generates PostScript, and PDF or PNG by conversion through
> > Ghostscript), "svg" (generates SVG only), and, in more recent
> > versions, "cairo" (generates PostScript, PDF, PNG or SVG through the
> > Cairo library).
> 
> I could have sworn I read that in the documentation, but it appears
> not.  I must have made it up late one night...  Apologies for the
> noise.
> 
> > Changing the backend is independent from changing the output format
> > since there can be multiple backends to produce the same format.
> 
> Is there any way to produce png output without --png in the command?

Postprocess with:

  $ convert a.pdf a.png
  $ gm convert a.pdf a.png

ie, convert is in imagemagick and graphicsmagick.

Cheers,
David.

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