[texhax] JPEG preview of XeLaTeX page?

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2011-07-06 at 16:56:57 -0400, Peter Davis wrote:

 > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de>wrote:
 > 
 > > On 2011-07-06 at 15:00:25 -0400, Peter Davis wrote:
 > >
 > >  > Is there a way to get a JPEG preview of an XeLaTeX page?  I know
 > >  > there are various DVI viewers that can generate raster previews,
 > >  > but I don't know if there are any for XDVI, and I don't know if
 > >  > there's a way to capture a page preview as a JPEG.  Is there a
 > >  > known way to do this?
 > >
 > > The sole purpose of XDVI is to provide raster previews.
 > 
 > Not also to be converted to PDF?

Arrrgh, you are talking about the file format, I had the previewer in
mind.  Sorry.  

I don't know whether dvipng understands XDVI, but if you create a PDF
file, you can use ghostscript in order to create bitmaps.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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