CTAN update: bmeps 1.2.0

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 Dirk Krause submitted version 1.2.0 of his bmeps package. A library and a command line tool for conversion of different bitmap graphics types to EPS. It can produce EPS levels 1, 2 and 3. Level 2 allows the use of run-length compression and ASCII-85-encoding instead of ASCII-Hex-encoding, while level 3 allows the use of flate compression. TIFF- and PNG-alpha channels can be converted into EPS level 3 image masks. Modified dvips sources are included to allow image conversion directly from dvips. Location on CTAN: /support/bmeps Summary description: Converter from PNG/JPEG/NetPBM to EPS, Upgrade and Bugfix License type: lgpl Announcement text:

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A library and a command line tool for conversion of different bitmap graphics types to EPS. It can produce EPS levels 1, 2 and 3. Level 2 allows the use of run-length compression and ASCII-85-encoding instead of ASCII-Hex-encoding, while level 3 allows the use of flate compression. PNG-alpha channels can be converted into EPS level 3 image masks. Modified dvips sources are included to allow image conversion directly from dvips. An option "-V" (or EPSOUTPUT character "V") was added to run in verbose mode. Previous versions (without verbose mode) did not write messages on errors, only the exit code was set. Previous versions possibly crashed/dumped core on problems in PNG files. The libpng routines use the setjmp()/longjmp() mechanism on errors but libbmeps did not set up the jump buffer. This is fixed now.

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Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf