From 0626386cae41509558a794c6b226ea820306105f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Karl Berry
This file documents dvipng version 1.15 +
This file documents dvipng version 1.16
Corrections or perhaps rewrites of sections are very welcome.
@@ -233,11 +233,11 @@ Next: Configure, Up: http://www.boutell.com/gd, and there are binary packages for -most operating systems from their respective distributors. In any -case, the latest version of the library installs using ‘autoconf’ -so it should not be difficult for you to install it from source, and -then proceed with installing dvipng. +https://bitbucket.org/libgd/gd-libgd/downloads, and there are +binary packages for most operating systems from their respective +distributors. In any case, the library installs using ‘autoconf’ so +it should not be difficult for you to install it from source, and then +proceed with installing dvipng.This is ./dvipng (TeX Live) 1.15 Copyright 2002-2015 Jan-Ake Larsson +This is ./dvipng 1.16 Copyright 2002-2015, 2019 Jan-Ake Larsson Usage: ./dvipng [OPTION]... FILENAME[.dvi] Options are chosen to be similar to dvips' options where possible: @@ -665,7 +665,10 @@ for rendering the fonts. If you have PostScript versions of Computer Modern installed, there will be no need to generate bitmapped (PK) variants on disk of these. Then, you can render images at different (and unusual) resolutions without cluttering the disk with lots of bitmapped -fonts. +fonts. +One reason to disable FreeType font rendering would be to generate +identical output on different platforms, since FreeType uses the native +renderer and therefore can give slightly different output on each platform.
Copyright © 2002-2015 Jan-Åke Larsson +
Copyright © 2002-2015, 2019 Jan-Åke Larsson