#!/bin/sh # # \file lyxpreview2ppm.sh # Copyright 2002 the LyX Team # Read the file COPYING # # \author Angus Leeming, leeming@lyx.org # # with much help from David Kastrup, david.kastrup@t-online.de. # The sed script was created with advice from Praveen D V, praveend@sasken.com # and the sed users' list, sed-users@yahoogroups.com. # This script takes a LaTeX file and generates PPM files, one per page. # The idea is to use it with preview.sty to create small bitmap previews of # things like math equations. # The script takes two arguments, the name of the file to be converted and # the resolution of the generated image, to be passed to gs. if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then exit 1 fi # A couple of helper functions FIND_EXECUTABLE="" FIND_IT () { which ${FIND_EXECUTABLE} > /dev/null STATUS=$? if [ ${STATUS} -ne 0 ]; then echo "Unable to find \"${FIND_EXECUTABLE}\". Please install." exit 1 fi } CHECK_STATUS () { if [ ${STATUS} -ne 0 ]; then echo "${EXECUTABLE} failed." # Remove everything except the original .tex file. FILES=`ls ${BASE}* | sed -e "/${BASE}.tex/d"` rm -f ${FILES} exit ${STATUS} fi } # We use latex, dvips and gs, so check that they're all there. FIND_EXECUTABLE=latex; FIND_IT FIND_EXECUTABLE=dvips; FIND_IT FIND_EXECUTABLE=gs; FIND_IT # Initialise some variables. TEXFILE=$1 RESOLUTION=$2 DIR=`dirname ${TEXFILE}` BASE=`basename ${TEXFILE} .tex` DVIFILE=${BASE}.dvi PSFILE=${BASE}.ps METRICS=${BASE}.metrics # Perform the conversion. cd ${DIR} latex ${TEXFILE} STATUS=$? EXECUTABLE="latex ${TEXFILE}"; CHECK_STATUS dvips -o ${PSFILE} ${DVIFILE} STATUS=$? EXECUTABLE="dvips ${DVIFILE}"; CHECK_STATUS # Older versions of gs have problems with a large degree of anti-aliasing # at high resolutions ALPHA=4 if [ ${RESOLUTION} -gt 150 ]; then ALPHA=2 fi gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pnmraw -sOutputFile=${BASE}%03d.ppm \ -dGraphicsAlphaBit=${ALPHA} -dTextAlphaBits=${ALPHA} -r${RESOLUTION} \ ${PSFILE} STATUS=$? EXECUTABLE="gs ${PSFILE}"; CHECK_STATUS # Attempt to generate a file ${METRICS} that contains only the tightpage # bounding box info, extract from ${PSFILE} # 1. Create a file containing the sed instructions SEDSCRIPT=bbox.sed cat - > ${SEDSCRIPT} < ${METRICS} STATUS=$? rm -f ${SEDSCRIPT} EXECUTABLE="extracting metrics"; CHECK_STATUS # The ppm files have spurious (?! say some !) white space on the left and right # sides. If you want this removed set REMOVE_WS=1. REMOVE_WS=0 which pnmcrop > /dev/null STATUS=$? if [ ${STATUS} -ne 0 ]; then REMOVE_WS=0 fi if [ ${REMOVE_WS} -eq 1 ]; then TMP=.${BASE}.ppm for FILE in `ls ${BASE}???.ppm` do pnmcrop -left ${FILE} | pnmcrop -right > ${TMP} STATUS=$? if [ ${STATUS} -eq 0 ]; then mv -f ${TMP} ${FILE} fi done fi # All was successful, so remove everything except the ppm files and the # metrics file. FILES=`ls ${BASE}* | sed -e "/${BASE}.metrics/d" -e "/${BASE}.*.ppm/d"` rm -f ${FILES}