DOCBOOK-APPS: EPS -> PNG with anti-aliasing

[Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>]

Folks,

I thought some of you might be interested in this.

If you're using DocBook to create documentation in a variety of formats,
*and* you're using images, and one of your 'source' image formats is EPS
then you may well have been using "eps2png", from

    http://www.squirrel.nl/people/jvromans/sw_eps2png.html

The problem with eps2png is a limitation in Ghostscript -- it doesn't
anti-alias the PNG images.

To fix this, one of the FreeBSD contributors has written "peps", which
can be used to convert EPS to PNG (and other formats) with
anti-aliasing.

peps can be downloaded[1] from 

    http://www.whizkidtech.net/peps/

which also has some illustrations of the problem, and how peps solves
it.

N

[1] If you're using FreeBSD then it's in the ports tree already.
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