dvipng: Basic usage

 
 3 Basic usage of dvipng
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 To use dvipng at its simplest, simply type
 
      dvipng foo
 
 where 'foo.dvi' is the output of TeX that you want to convert to PNG
 format.  If there are four pages in 'foo.dvi', those pages will be
 output as 'foo1.png', 'foo2.png', 'foo3.png', and 'foo4.png',
 respectively.
 
    If you have enabled the PostScript font support (via FreeType), fonts
 will be rendered as they are needed.  Otherwise, dvipng will use
 bitmapped (PK) fonts, and if you use PK fonts that have not been used on
 your system before, they may be automatically generated; this process
 can take a few minutes, so progress reports appear by default.  The next
 time the same font is used, it will have been saved on disk, so
 rendering will go much faster.  (If dvipng tries to endlessly generate
 the same fonts over and over again, something is wrong.  See
 (kpathsea)Unable to generate fonts.)
 
    Many options are available (see the next section).  For a brief
 summary of available options, just type
 
      dvipng --help