[Dvi2bitmap-users] Question about dvi2bitmap: generating bitmap of entire page

[Shreevatsa R <shr...@gm...>]

Hi,

I have a question about the dvi2bitmap tool from 2005 (so glad that someone
has written this!)

I would fully understand if there's no interest in answering this question
about a tool that hasn't been touched since, but asking just in case :-)

I am trying to generate a bitmap of the entire page (so 8.5 inches x 11
inches, for paper-size=usletter), and not sure how to achieve this with
dvi2bitmap.

When I try

./dvi2bitmap --process=nocrop ../hello.dvi

I get a bitmap of size 934 x 1688 pixels. At the default resolution of 110
pixels (ibmvga mode), I would expect 935 x 1210 pixels instead (8.5*110 x
11*110). I'm not sure why there's one pixel less in the horizontal
direction, and 478 additional pixels (about 4.35 inches) that appear to be
appended to the bottom of the page.

Similarly at other resolutions:

./dvi2bitmap --resolution=600 --font-mode=ljfour --process=nocrop
../hello.dvi

produces a bitmap of size 5099 x 9209 pixels, instead of 5100 x 6600 pixels
(again one pixel less in the horizontal direction, and about 4.35 inches
(2609 additional pixels) that appear to be appended to the bottom of the
page).

The dvi file is rather simple; it was generated by running `tex` on a file
`hello.tex` containing just

hello
\bye

I might be doing something wrong here; any help would be appreciated.

Regards,
Shreevatsa