I haven't used it myself, but it looks like JEuclid would do what you need--it includes a command-line tool for converting MathML to a variety of different image formats.

http://jeuclid.sourceforge.net/

Jason Thomale


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> To support some commercial e-books that we load locally and publish to
> our users with XTF, we need to handle formulas marked up in MathML.
>
> For their own web site, the book publisher farms this out to a
> third-party vendor that somehow converts the MathML to inline images
> for
> display in HTML pages.  The publisher is unable or unwilling to tell us
> what their vendor uses for the job.
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> I'm all for sending MathML down the pipe (caveat browsor), but our
> e-book guru hasn't been able to slip it through XTF.  If that isn't an
> option, does anyone know a tool to convert possible large sets of
> MathML
> formulas to PNG (or GIF) images?  I've run across similar converters
> for
> LaTeX, but not MathML.
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