How to create diagrams for papers.

Question

I want to create some diagrams for some papers.

Diagrams will contain some text, e.g. some console output. I need images for using also in html files.

There is TikZ so can create images like this:

• http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/boxes-with-text-and-math/
• http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/rule-based-diagram/
• http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/scenario-tree/

but as a result I get some ps/pdf files, not images.

What's more I want to generate the pictures from text files as I want to track changes in some VCS, any binary files are not suitable for that.

Answer 1

The program convert from the ImageMagick suite can convert PDF files to other formats, like PNG. In its simplest form:

convert diagram.pdf diagram.png

See the manual for additional options.