[pstricks] Producing good PNG files

[Blair Hall]

At 05:35 p.m. 7/01/2010, Michael Sharpe wrote:

Thanks for the suggestion Michael, I have tried this but it does not help.
The gs command transforms my whole A4 page into a PNG file even though the
figure is a small part of it. I have set the EPS bounding box to an
appropriate size, but ghostscript ignores that.

I am working from a simple LaTeX file to do these tests. It looks something
like this:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{amsmath}

\usepackage{pstricks}
\usepackage{pstricks-add}

% etc, etc

\pagestyle{empty}

\begin{document}

\begin{TeXtoEPS}

\begin{pspicture}(-.5,-.5)(5,3)
\scalebox{1} {
  % my test figure
}
\end{pspicture}

\end{TeXtoEPS}

\end{document}

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Thanks

Blair

On Jan 6, 2010, at 6:46 PM, B.D. Hall wrote:

> I am sure there has to be a way to do this well, but 2 days of mucking
around have not solved my problem. I am looking for some advice please.
>
> I have plenty of drawings that have been developed using PSTricks. Now
someone has asked me contribute to a Mediawiki site and I need to transform
some of these into a .png format (or other format accepted by mediawiki,
like jpeg).
>
> I have not been able to transfom PostScript or PDF versions of my figures
into .png without quite a lot of degradation in their appearance. (I have
used things like Gimp, GSView, and ImageMagick but nothing has really done
the trick). It seems that the rasterizing of the ps or pdf information is
not very satisfactory (but I'm just guessing).
>
> I have used LatexDraw to construct many of the figures and I have to say
that that program can export to a PNG file that looks OK. However, if I use
any LaTeX math symbols in the drawing then they are not handled by the
exporting software. (I assume therefore that what is exported is not really
derived from PSTricks in this case).
>
> So my question is this: can anyone advise me on how to produce reasonable
png files from my existing PSTricks / LaTeX sources? It has to be possible,
I say to myself, because I can see all these nice figures on PSTrick's page
on Wikipedia!
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Blair
>

All the tools I know about call ghostscript in the end, so you may not get
much greater quality from any one particular tool---it's a matter of the
settings. The png16m output format is usually good (24 bit RGB). (Use
pngalpha for 32 bit RGBA.)

You should get good screen output from

gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=png16m -r96 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4
-sOutputFile=xxx.png xxx.ps

Michael
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