IMAGEN(1)						      General Commands Manual							 IMAGEN(1)

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.

       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 pro-
	      duced 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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