Angus Leeming wrote:
> First, the preamble. I invoked dvipng so:
> dvipng -bg 'rgb 0.980 0.941 0.902' -depth <dvifile>
OK, you do want the --height too, I guess?
> [1 depth=13/home/angus/preview-latex/devel/dvipng/dvipng warning: at
> (-155,18) unimplemented \special{ps::-32891 -32891 32891 32891 957561
> 564346 22609920}.
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> 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.
Yes. You can do either.
> 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).
There are actually three ways to determine the boundingboxes.
1) "-T tight" which would make "-depth -height" necessary. You'd get
the boundingbox determined from the ink of the image.
2) From the output I see you have used the "tightpage" option to
preview, I have code lying around that will take the boundingboxes
from the specials instead, do you want that?
3) "dvipng <dvifile> -" will fire up the stdin interface where you
could input the dimensions yourself per page, as obtained from the
latex run. Once the stdin interface is up you give
"-T 1in,1in -O 40sp,30sp -pp1" and then "-T 3cm,3cm -O 3pt,5pt -pp2"
and so on.
/JÅ
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