Re: gEDA-user: improve PNG output quality

[Joerg <joergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter TB Brett wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 October 2008 18:45:29 Joerg wrote:
>> John Doty wrote:
>>
>>> Different culture. Dense text, small print, and tiny graphics are
>>> normal in scientific publication. I just grabbed a conference
>>> proceedings volume at random from the shelf, and in seconds found a
>>> page (14 by 22 cm) with nine separate plots of data from 19
>>> independent data cuts. I'd need a magnifier to see all the details.
>>> Pretty common. High page charges and/or page limits dictate form, and
>>> historically reference libraries didn't want to keep lots of low
>>> resolution paper (but now they're getting rid of paper, and
>>> physically disappearing).
>> Yep. I did a few and they always told me "You've got x pages. If you go
>> over that you'll have to pay and it'll be lots of money". BTW, I did all
>> of them without LaTex or any other high-faluting power software ...
> 
> This is getting really heavily off-topic now. Yes, some people like vector 
> graphics for document preparation, some prefer bitmaps. We could debate the 
> relative merits all day, but there seems little point in doing so on this 
> mailing list!
> 
> The fact that gschem's PNG export isn't ideal has been noted, and some 
> workarounds suggested. Flogging a dead horse won't make it run faster!
> 

Yes, true. At least a couple work-arounds have been mentioned. And we 
did not get into any politics ;-)

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