Re: [Dvipng] option for additional map files?

[Jan-Åke Larsson]

2012-02-04 18:02, Karl Berry skrev:
> Hi Jan-Ake,
>
> I've been using dvipng to extract sample images for fonts.  For that, it
> would be helpful to have fontmap-related options, specifically dvips's
> -u +somefont.map to add the entries in somefont.map.  It's something of
> a drag to be forced to have every entry in the system map file.
>
> Or am I missing something and there is some way to do it already?

Patch the source, I guess. I did base the functionality on dvips, but
that was ten years ago. A lot has happened since.

> Wdyt?

Not a big problem to do, but there is a big lack of time just now. March
is better.

> P.S. I did not see the contact email address in the output of --help or
> directly at http://www.nongnu.org/dvipng/ ... would be nice not to hide
> it in section 7.1 :).

:) I'll see what I can do.

/JÅ