Jan-Åke Larsson wrote: > (You _can_ get a --height switch too, such that depth+height would > be the total image height)
Ok, Jan-Åke, some questions. First, the preamble. I invoked dvipng so: dvipng -bg 'rgb 0.980 0.941 0.902' -depth <dvifile> to give: [1 depth=13/home/angus/preview-latex/devel/dvipng/dvipng warning: at (-155,18) unimplemented \special{ps::-32891 -32891 32891 32891 957561 564346 22609920}. /home/angus/preview-latex/devel/dvipng/dvipng warning: at (-155,-2) unimplemented \special{!userdict begin/bop-hook{/isls false def/vsize 792 def/hsize 612 def}def end}. /home/angus/preview-latex/devel/dvipng/dvipng warning: at (-155,-2) unimplemented \special{!userdict begin/bop-hook{7{currentfile token not{stop}if 65781.76 div DVImag mul}repeat 72 add 72 2 copy gt{exch}if 4 2 roll neg 2 copy lt{exch}if dup 0 gt{pop 0 exch}{exch dup 0 lt{pop 0}if}ifelse 720 add exch 720 add 3 1 roll 4{5 -1 roll add 4 1 roll}repeat <</PageSize[5 -1 roll 6 index sub 5 -1 roll 5 index sub]/PageOffset[7 -2 roll [1 1 dtransform exch]{0 ge{neg}if exch}forall]>>setpagedevice//bop-hook exec}bind def end}. /home/angus/preview-latex/devel/dvipng/dvipng warning: at (-155,-2) unimplemented \special{!userdict begin/bop-hook{//bop-hook exec <000000faf0e6>{255 div}forall setrgbcolor clippath fill setrgbcolor}bind def end}. ] [2 depth=10/home/angus/preview-latex/devel/dvipng/dvipng warning: at (-113,15) unimplemented \special{ps::-32891 -32891 32891 32891 786432 449545 22609920}. ] [3 depth=6/home/angus/preview-latex/devel/dvipng/dvipng warning: at (0,10) unimplemented \special{ps::-32891 -32891 32891 32891 491524 225995 10566263}. ] 1. Here I had colour specials in the latex file. In future I will not need them, right? Instead I'll pass them direct to dvipng, as above. 2. I should prefer your -depth and -height flags, extracting the metrics info from the output above, rather than extracting it from the latex log file? Reason: the log file info is going to be wrong if I invoke dvipng with the '-T tight' option, right? (and I would like to do so so that I can strip off the front margin of a displaystyle equation). Have a good weekend, Angus