It is sometimes useful to convert the typeset output of TeX into a bitmap image viewable on the web. This is most often the case when TeX or LaTeX are being used to typeset the mathematics in a paper being conveted to HTML. It is possible to do this with a chain of general-purpose tools, for example going from DVI to postscript to PNM files to GIFs, but this is generally slow. For an overview of maths and SGML/HTML, see Appendix A.
The tool dvi2bitmap does this processing in a single step, reading the DVI file and font files, and emitting a bitmap. It can, at present, generate XBM, XPM, GIF and, if the relevant library is installed, PNG files.
See Section 2 for usage instructions, and Section 5 for installation instructions.
The dvi2bitmap application is available for download at
<http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/star/dvi2bitmap/>.
This document matches version 0.13b2
of the program (you can
see what version you have with the command dvi2bitmap
-V). This should currently be regarded as beta
software.