4 August 2026: dvisvgm 3.6.1 has been released
  • Fixed the Unicode mapping of some ligatures.
  • Fixed several potential memory issues.
  • Changed some parts of the code to be compatible with C++ standard >= 20.
8 December 2025: dvisvgm 3.6 has been released
  • Removed the restriction to process PDF-1.x files only (issue #291).
  • Option --page: added evaluation of %P which expands to the maximum page number. Also, %(expr) is supported to evaluate arithmetic expressions, like %(P-1). See the manual page for further information.
  • Option --page: page numbers greater than the maximum page number are no longer replaced by the maximum page number but ignored.
  • PDF handler: the computation of opacity values has been extended (issue #292).
  • Fixed the lookup of character code 0 in character maps (issue #294).
  • Fixed the height and depth values shown when processing data created by the preview package.
  • Updated the bundled brotli library to version 1.2.0.
  • Some code improvements.
23 May 2025: dvisvgm 3.5 has been released
  • Fonts are now embedded in deterministic rather than random order (issue #288).
  • Different glyphs now always get distinct Unicode code points to avoid collisions, even if they represent the same character (issue #287).
  • Fixed font-related segmentation faults caused by malformed DVI files (issue #289).
  • DVI error messages now also mention the byte position where the error occurred in the DVI file.
  • The evaluation of PostScript operators has been improved and should be more stable.
  • Many code refactorings and improvements.
6 March 2025: dvisvgm 3.4.4 has been released
  • Extended the computation of Unicode points by looking for known glyph names.
  • Added some common glyph names not yet covered by the AGL table.
  • Added a warning shown if unsupported PDF specials have been ignored.
  • Some additions to the manual page.
  • Several code improvements.
4 January 2025: dvisvgm 3.4.3 has been released
  • Fixed an index error in PS operator colorimage (issue #279).
  • Updated the bundled xxHash library to version 0.8.3.
  • Minor changes to the manual page.
14 November 2024: dvisvgm 3.4.2 has been released
  • Fixed the evaluation of Unicode data performed when converting PDF files (issue #276).
  • Fixed the horizontal character positioning in the PDF handler to prevent exceeding text lines (issue #276).
  • Fixed the drawing of single-colored tensor product patches to also get correct shapes if parts of the surface overlap.
  • TTF/WOFF data written to SVG files now use a static creation and modification date to ensure identical SVG files for unchanged input files (issue #120).
  • Slightly improved formatting and wording of the manual page.
16 September 2024: dvisvgm 3.4.1 has been released

This is just a small maintenance release with these changes:

  • When converting PDF files, dvisvgm now shows the number of the page being processed.
  • Added missing #include statement required as of GCC 15 (issue #273).
24 July 2024: dvisvgm 3.4 has been released
  • Option --embed-bitmaps is now also applied to images included with special dvisvgm:img (issue #229).

  • Added macro {?cmyk(c,m,y,k)} to allow for directly specifying CMYK colors in literal SVG fragments.

  • Extended the dvips color specials to distinguish between fill and stroke colors. For further information see the manual page.

  • Added color special color set to replace the current color without pushing a new value onto the color stack. See the manual page for more details.

  • Added macros {?fillcolor} and {?strokecolor} to retrieve the current fill and stroke color, respectively. The former macro {?color} equals {?fillcolor} and is still available too.

  • Replaced millimeter units with big point (bp) units in the message showing the extent of the generated SVG file. TeX’s “big points” equal SVG, PostScript, and PDF points (1in = 72bp), while TeX points are slightly smaller (1in = 72.27pt).

    $ dvisvgm -d2 frktest
    pre-processing DVI file (format version 2)
      processing page 1
      graphic size: 398.34pt x 456.34pt (396.85bp x 454.63bp)
      output written to frktest.svg
    1 of 1 page converted in 0.0754669 seconds
  • Fixed the detection of MIME types depending of file name suffixes.

  • Several small code improvements.