UNRESTRICTED | ILLIMITÉ Summary of problem:
After installing TeXLive 2009 and running htlatex on a windows system, TeX4ht did not generate any png files. Solution: After some debugging, the problem was that TeX4ht needed to use the "convert" utility which is installed by default on most linux/unix operating systems. On Windows systems, "convert" means convert from fat32 to ntfs disc mount. A way of correcting this is to install ImageMagic for Windows, and also install a modern version of ghostscript that can convert ps to png and also make sure that both are in the path. So, this is one solution to this problem. After more discussion it turns out that a hidden version of ghostscript is installed with TeXLive that could be used by TeX4ht to generate the png files. instead of ImageMagic + gs It involved making a simple to TeX4ht.env I added the new change to the TeXLive 2009 install on my machine and tested it to death. Other than an occasional hiccup while producing between 2500 and 10,000 sequential png files, possibly due to an error condition generated due to system load (?), everthing worked perfectly. The change was made by Akira Kakuto, and Reinhard Kotucha let me know about it. In fact, using gs to do the conversion produces png files that are often less than half the size of those produced by ImageMagic! I asked about this, and Reinhard said this is normal. In fact, it has been shown that gs sometimes produces png files that are very much smaller than ImageMagic. The file that was changed was C:\texlive\2009\texmf-dist\tex4ht\base\win32\tex4ht.env I have included a copy. In case it has not been doen already, can this be added to the latest distribution please? Thanks to all those who helped me resolve this problem. Thomas CONFIDENTIAL AND PRIVILEGED INFORMATION NOTICE This e-mail, and any attachments, may contain information that is confidential, subject to copyright, or exempt from disclosure. Any unauthorized review, disclosure, retransmission, dissemination or other use of or reliance on this information may be unlawful and is strictly prohibited. AVIS D'INFORMATION CONFIDENTIELLE ET PRIVILÉGIÉE Le présent courriel, et toute pièce jointe, peut contenir de l'information qui est confidentielle, régie par les droits d'auteur, ou interdite de divulgation. Tout examen, divulgation, retransmission, diffusion ou autres utilisations non autorisées de l'information ou dépendance non autorisée envers celle-ci peut être illégale et est strictement interdite.
tex4ht.env
Description: tex4ht.env
