[Tutor] Python Tool for converting TeX to GIF

[Stephan Richter]

>It's acting trully as a scripting language here -- in
>its element (and in competition with Perl).

In fact this is almost the same idea of the Perl tex2gif version. Most of 
the code (the commands) I got from a shell script called ps2gif. Do it is 
really a mix of a lot of things. :-) In the beginning I wanted to let PIL 
handle the PS2GIF conversion, but there was no anti-aliasing support, so I 
went with the GS solution.

BTW, I was able abstract it all a little and make a class. I incorporated 
it all into Zope and I can now generate on the fly GIFs on any Web Site. 
This is truly nice for science.

Regards,
Stephan

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Stephan Richter
CBU - Physics and Chemistry Student
Web2k - Web Design/Development & Technical Project Management