NAME
image - Translate LaTeX documents to GIF images.
SYNOPSIS
imagen
<base>
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
R imagen
command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux
distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
imagen
is a simple shell script that translates a LaTeX document into many
images. Please consult the hevea manual for explanation how to use
imagen
in conjunction with hevea.
The Debian version of HeVeA differs from the original HeVeA
distribution in that pictures are by default generated in the png
format instead of gif. To regain the original behavior you have to
modify your LaTeX input (see hevea (1)) and invoke imagen
with the -gif option.
OPTIONS
A summary of options are included below.
-png
Produce images in the png format. On a Debian system this is the default.
-gif
Produce images in gif format instead of png.
-pnm
Produce images in pnm format.
-mag nnnn,
Change the enlarging ratio that is applied while translating DVI into
Postscript. More precisely, dvips is run with -xnnnn option. Default
value for this ration is 1414, this means that, by
default, imagen magnifies LaTeX output by a factor of 1.414.
-t arg
Pass option -t arg to dvips. For instance, using -t
a3 may help when images are truncated on the right.
-pdf
Have imagen call pdflatex instead of latex
-extra command,
Insert command as an additional stage in imagen ppm to png/gif production
chain. command is a Unix filter that expects a ppm image in its
standard input and outputs a ppm image on its standard output. A
sensible choice for command is one command from the netpbm package or
several such commands piped together.
-quant number
Add an extra color quantization step in imagen ppm image production
chain, where number is the maximal number of colors in the produced
images. This option may be needed in response of a failure in the
image production chain. It can also help in limiting image files size.
SEE ALSO
The HeVeA documentation can be found on the HeVeA home page
http://hevea.inria.fr/
On a Debian system it can also be accessed at
/usr/share/doc/hevea-doc/html, provided the package
hevea-doc (from the non-free section) is installed.
AUTHOR
This manual page was compiled by Ralf Treinen
<treinen@debian.org>
from the HeVeA documentation for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may
be used by others).