bmeps

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Convert PNG/JPEG/NetPBM to EPS

Installation

PDF manual "bmeps.pdf" available
Install required and recommended libraries
Required libraries
Recommended optional libraries
Download and install the bmeps package (required)
Add bmeps support to dvips (optional)
Windows installation

Install required and recommended libraries

Required libraries

The following libraries are required to install the bmeps package:

Recommended optional libraries

The following libraries are optional, but recommended: Note: If you installed these packages using your OS vendors package management software make sure the header files... are also installed.
Some systems have separated packages: one for binaries and shared libraries and an additional one (mostly called "xxx developer support") containing C header files and other material needed to compile programs using the library.

Download and install the bmeps package (required)

The software is available via the SourceForge.net project page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/bmeps.
After unpacking the source package use

  ./configure
  make
  make install
to build and install the the bmeps package. Make sure to have the environment variables CC, CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, LD and LDFLAGS set properly.
Experienced users on Linux can use
  ./configure
  make -f Makefile-shared-linux
  make -f Makefile-shared-linux install
to build a shared library libbmeps.so and a binary bmeps using this shared library. But this is not recommended for the wide majority of users, only experienced users, developers and people creating binary installation packages for Linux distributions or LaTeX distributions should do so. You need to make sure that libbmeps.so is found when the bmeps program is run. You may either add the directory where libbmeps.so is installed to LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable or list the directory in the /etc/ld.so.conf file. Please consult your systems manuals for details about placing shared libraries and configuring library search.

Add bmeps support to dvips (optional)

Adding bmeps support to dvips is not a simple task. It requires knowledge about using your development tools, the TeX directory structure and how to compile parts of your LaTeX distribution.
Furthermore you need the source code for the kpathsea library and dvipsk.

Windows installation

Building the libraries and the programs using the libraries on Windows systems from source requires manual changes in makefiles. Good skills in using the development tools and a significant amount of time is needed to do that.
So it is recommended to use the setup program in dklibs-win32-*-setup.exe from http://sourceforge.net/projects/dklibs.
This program installs dklibs, dktools, bmeps, png2pdf, yanolc and genau.
There are two different setup programs:

For both executables you can choose either english or german language.