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Re: Reading & Displaying Latex Rendered images

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On 6/29/2012 6:24 AM, Fastian wrote:
> I am developing an application for the university. One basic
 > module/ section of this application is Data Entry. The data
 > is entered using Latex (Latex is a type setting language
 > and is not a WYSIWYG language). The tex software converts the
 > latex code into the required image. For better understanding
 > visit the following link:
> http://www.forkosh.com/mathtexpreview.html
>
> You can see that on entering Latex code, the desired output
 > is obtained which is actually an image. This image is produced
 > by the Tex software and is being fetched and displayed on this
 > page. Another way to get that image is as follows:
> <img src="http://www.forkosh.com/mathtex.cgi?$c=a+b$" alt="" border=0 align=middle>
>
> My issue is that I want to get the image generated due to the
 > rendering of the  Latex code and then display it after re-sizing
 > and then want store it in the MYSQL database.
>
> As I dont know the name of the image produced due to rendering
 > that's why I can not pick the image with its name. Therefore I
 > tried using function "file_get_contents". Though it returns
> some garbage values on echo but what next?
>
> I need to know that how can I proceed further or suggest some
 > better way to deal with these issues especially while dealing
 > with LateX rendering. Thanks!
>

You don't show the code you're trying to use, so it's all a guess as to 
what's wrong.  There are many possibilities.

If you're going to display an image, you need to send it as an image. 
My guess is that you're displaying it as text.

Web pages are sent with a content-type of text/html.  But if the web 
page contains an image, the browser makes a second request to the server 
for the image.  The image will be sent with a content-type of 
image/jpeg, image/gif, etc.  So the first thing you need to do is ensure 
you are sending the correct header when displaying it (in this case it 
should be image/gif) (obviously this needs to be done in a separate 
script from the rest of the page and accessed with an <img= tag).

So what you could do is in your test page, put something like:

   <img src="testimg.php" ....>

Then in your testimg.php file, fetch the file with file_get_contents 
then display it with the correct headers, i.e.

   header ('Content-type: image/gif');

Of course, if this is the only thing on your test page (it's sending 
NOTHING else), you can skip the <img= ...> tag and just send the correct 
content-type at the start of your script.

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Reading & Displaying Latex Rendered images Fastian <abdulbasit.fast@gmail.com> - 2012-06-29 03:24 -0700
  Re: Reading & Displaying Latex Rendered images The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-06-29 12:02 +0100
    Re: Reading & Displaying Latex Rendered images Fastian <abdulbasit.fast@gmail.com> - 2012-06-29 04:34 -0700
      Re: Reading & Displaying Latex Rendered images The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-06-29 13:09 +0100
  Re: Reading & Displaying Latex Rendered images Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-06-29 09:20 -0400
    Re: Reading & Displaying Latex Rendered images Fastian <abdulbasit.fast@gmail.com> - 2012-07-01 23:42 -0700
      Re: Reading & Displaying Latex Rendered images "Álvaro G. Vicario" <alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX@demogracia.com.invalid> - 2012-07-02 09:34 +0200
        Re: Reading & Displaying Latex Rendered images Fastian <abdulbasit.fast@gmail.com> - 2012-07-02 01:10 -0700
      Re: Reading & Displaying Latex Rendered images Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-07-02 06:53 -0400
        Re: Reading & Displaying Latex Rendered images Fastian <abdulbasit.fast@gmail.com> - 2012-07-02 04:24 -0700
          Re: Reading & Displaying Latex Rendered images Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-07-02 09:35 -0400
            Re: Reading & Displaying Latex Rendered images Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-07-02 09:41 -0400
              Re: Reading & Displaying Latex Rendered images Fastian <abdulbasit.fast@gmail.com> - 2012-07-02 10:00 -0700
                Re: Reading & Displaying Latex Rendered images Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-07-02 16:54 -0400
  Re: Reading & Displaying Latex Rendered images Fastian <abdulbasit.fast@gmail.com> - 2012-07-02 00:28 -0700
    Re: Reading & Displaying Latex Rendered images "Álvaro G. Vicario" <alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX@demogracia.com.invalid> - 2012-07-02 10:44 +0200
      Re: Reading & Displaying Latex Rendered images Fastian <abdulbasit.fast@gmail.com> - 2012-07-02 02:54 -0700
        Re: Reading & Displaying Latex Rendered images Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-07-02 06:46 -0400

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