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		niggler on March 20, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FlyLatex: a free, open-source real-time collaborat... Is there an option to generate PNGs or JPGs from a formula (without having to go through pdflatex)?

JoshTriplett on March 20, 2013 [–]

You can also use dvipng, but that requires going through dvi; pdflatex and a PDF-to-image converter works far better. I don't know of any TeX engines designed to render images directly.

solarbunny on March 20, 2013 | [–]

If only pdflatex could be faster...

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