Re: dvipng and TeXlive

Jan-Ake Larsson <[email protected]> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
>> TeXlive2004 comes with dvipng 1.1 which balks at the -noghostscript
>> option.  Sigh.
>
> Not much I can do about that. But is this a problem? The pages are
> rendered anyway. Ah. The pages _are_ rendered.
>
> A larger problem may be the missing --picky option. This will be read
> as '-p 0', and most DVIs do not have a page 0. Which means no pages
> will be output.

Perhaps we should test for the presence of dvipng and versions (and
also use this knowledge for setting the default option of
preview-image-type)?

I am not sure what this would mean for package building, though.  It
would mostly imply a prerequisite of dvipng for building.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


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