Package: latex2html Version: 2023-debian1-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: hamish.webm...@gmail.com
Dear Maintainer, Hi, the pstoimg program that comes with latex2html has changed behavior and now defaults to SVG format instead of PNG. That would be ok but SVG format is not supported! In addition PNG and GIF support fails making the program completely unusable, but I'll file that as another bug. Here is an example using a PostScript file taken from the texlive-latex-extra package: PSFILE=/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ha-prosper/Styles/TCS/TCSgradlogo.ps # if you don't specifcy a format the new version now defaults to SVG apparently $ pstoimg -o test.png $PSFILE pstoimg V2023 pstoimg: Processing .../Styles/TCS/TCSgradlogo.ps pstoimg: Error: unknown image type "svg". # if we explicity tell it to make a PNG or GIF $ pstoimg -type png -o test.png $PSFILE ### pnmcolormap/pnmquant fail, but that's another bug. # SVG doesn't work even if you try- $ pstoimg -type svg -o test.svg $PSFILE pstoimg V2023 pstoimg: Processing /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ha-prosper/Styles/TCS/TCSgradlogo.ps pstoimg: Error: unknown image type "svg". It seems that SVG support never got past aspirational feature enhancement stage in the man page and being set as the program default? And perhaps it is a better strategy that new features not start out as the default, but as optional? - workaround: ImageMagick's `convert` creates very similar output to earlier versions of pstoimg (both are using Ghostscript) but according to the pstoimg man page that isn't as efficient. `pstoedit` might be another option if you want to convert to SVG. The SVG default is easily edited out on lines 286 and 732 of /usr/bin/pstoimg for what it's worth to end users out there. thanks, Hamish -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-23-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages latex2html depends on: ii ghostscript-x 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u4 ii netpbm 2:11.01.00-2 ii perl 5.36.0-7+deb12u1 ii perl-doc 5.36.0-7+deb12u1 ii poppler-utils 22.12.0-2+b1 ii tex-common 6.18 ii texlive-binaries 2022.20220321.62855-5.1+deb12u1 ii texlive-fonts-recommended 2022.20230122-3 ii texlive-latex-extra 2022.20230122-4 ii texlive-latex-recommended 2022.20230122-3 Versions of packages latex2html recommends: ii dvipng 1.15-1.1+b1 latex2html suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
