NAME

       image - Translate LaTeX documents to GIF images.

SYNOPSIS

       imagen <base>

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents  briefly  the  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.

OPTIONS

       A summary of options are included below.

       -png   Produce images in the png format. This is the default.

       -gif   Produce images in gif format instead of png.

       -pnm   Produce images in pnm format instead of png.

       -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

       hevea(1), latex(1), gs(1), dvips(1), ppmtopng(1), ppmtogif(1)

       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

       Imagen is part of HeVeA, written by Luc Maranget <Luc.Maranget@inria.fr>.

       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).

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