Re: gEDA-user: improve PNG output quality

[Joerg <joergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Duncan Drennan wrote:
>> Why do you include PNG in openoffice document -- can OO not handle PDF
>> or EPS? I would use that (LaTeX), PNG only for web pages (SVG may be
>> still better for web pages of course).
> 
> OOo supports EPS files, but not importing PDF as an image (maybe there
> is an extension?) The problem actually arises out of the way the OOo
> PDF exporter works. If you insert an eps image into OOo, it does not
> display (unless the image has a preview). When you print, the eps
> image does print correctly, but when you export to PDF then the
> preview of the image is exported. So if there is no preview you get a
> red outline block with the filename, and if there is you get the low
> quality preview.
> 

Hmm, my first post didn't make it.

Anyhow, OO does not reliably handle EPS in my experience and neither did 
Word. I saw everything from cryptic text to a crash of the program.


> Using pdfcreator as a printer works well, but it doesn't output the
> links in the document correctly (arg), and so
> round-and-round-and-round we go.
> 
> I'll give John's Makefile method a go and see how that goes.
> 

I tried Gimp. Came with Ubuntu and worked nicely. Then PNG into the text 
document.

-- 
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/



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