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diff --git a/graphics/dvisvgm/README b/graphics/dvisvgm/README index 7ad9bb195c..59e0991ba0 100644 --- a/graphics/dvisvgm/README +++ b/graphics/dvisvgm/README @@ -1,11 +1,33 @@ -dvisvgm is a fast DVI to SVG converter +dvisvgm is a fast DVI (and EPS) to SVG converter -The command-line utility dvisvgm is a tool for TeX/LaTeX users. It converts DVI -and EPS files to the XML-based scalable vector graphics format SVG. In contrast -to bitmap graphics, vector graphics are arbitrarily scalable without loss of -quality. - -All modern web browsers support a large amount of the current SVG standard 1.1. -Furthermore, SVG files can also be displayed with the Java-based Squiggle SVG -browser which is part of the Apache Batik project, and the free vector -graphics editor Inkscape. +The command-line utility dvisvgm is a tool for TeX/LaTeX users. It +converts DVI and EPS files to the XML-based scalable vector graphics +format SVG. The latest releases support standard DVI files (format 2) as +well as DVI output created by pTeX in vertical mode (format 3), and XeTeX +(format 5 and 6, also known as XDV). + http://dvisvgm.bplaced.net +dvisvgm version 1.6 is present in SlackBuild texlive-2014052 +This separate package presents an updated version 1.11 of dvisvgm +offereing various bugfixes and the following main features: +* Complete font support including virtual fonts, evaluation of font +encodings, CMap files, sub-font definitions and font maps. +* Glyph outlines of all required fonts are embedded into the generated +SVG files. +* Glyph outlines of fonts that are not available in a vector format are +generated on-the-fly by vectorizing METAFONT's bitmap output. +* dvisvgm allows to replace font definitions by paths so that +applications without SVG font support are enabled to render dvisvgm's +output properly. +* Computes tight bounding boxes for the generated graphics, but supports +common paper formats and arbitrary user-defined sizes as well. +* Option --eps allows to convert EPS files to SVG. +* Intersections of clipping paths can be computed directly instead of +delegating this task to the SVG renderer. This increases the +compatibility of the generated SVG files. +* Approximates PostScript color gradient fills not directly supported by +SVG 1.1. +* Optionally creates compressed SVGZ files. +* Provides options for applying page transformations, like translation, +rotation, scaling, and skewing. +* Evaluates color, emTeX, tpic, hyperref/HyperTeX, PDF mapfile, and +PostScript specials. |