CTAN update: png2pdf 1.0.6
Date: February 17, 2005 12:51:02 AM CET
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 Dirk Krause uploaded version 1.0.6 of his png2pdf
package.
Location on CTAN: /support/png2pdf
Summary description: Converter from PNG to PDF, Update and Bugfix
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
The png2pdf program converts PNG images to PDF. An alpha channel in the PNG file can be used to mix against a specified background color and/or to create a PDF image mask or PDF alpha channel. An option "-n" or "--interpolation" was created to add an "/Interpolate true" entry to the image dictionary. This suggests PDF viewers to show an interpolated image on screen. Previous versions possibly crashed/dumped core when problems occured while reading PNG files. The libpng routines use the setjmp()/longjmp() mechanism on errors but png2pdf did not set up a jump buffer. This is fixed now.
Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf
The png2pdf program converts PNG images to PDF. An alpha channel in the PNG file can be used to mix against a specified background color and/or to create a PDF image mask or PDF alpha channel. An option "-n" or "--interpolation" was created to add an "/Interpolate true" entry to the image dictionary. This suggests PDF viewers to show an interpolated image on screen. Previous versions possibly crashed/dumped core when problems occured while reading PNG files. The libpng routines use the setjmp()/longjmp() mechanism on errors but png2pdf did not set up a jump buffer. This is fixed now.
Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf
png2pdf – PNG to PDF converter
The png2pdf program converts PNG images to PDF. An alpha channel in the PNG file can be used to mix against a specified background color and/or to create a PDF image mask or PDF alpha channel. The program may be of interest for pdfLaTeX users creating posters, flyers having colored background, etc.
The package’s functionality is now replaced by bmpp, which is part of dktools.
| Package | png2pdf |
| Maintainer | Dirk Krause |