RE: gEDA-user: background color and PNG out

["EATON,JOHN (HP-Vancouver,ex1)" <john_eaton@hp.com>]

Vectors? They made sense when pen plotters used actual pens
and were fun to watch zip back and forth but today everything
is raster graphics. HP doesn't even sell plotters anymore, they
have all been relabeled as Printers and use the same basic
technology in the $50 letter printer as the $20,000 E-size roll
ones. HPGL is about as dead as Latin. Anything else is just going
to have to go through a converter.

The big drivers are digital photos and web graphics. The PNG output
is good, I can now (Thanks Ales) export a PNG file that I can
paste into Word or Visio and from there I can go to PDF or the
web. 

BTW: Are PNG outputs limited to screen sizes ( 800x600,640x480..etc)
are can they vary. I would like to place an arbitrary sized frame
on the schematic and have only the frame and everything in it exported.

BTW: fixing the lightbackground problem is done in
C:\Geda\share\gEDA\gschem-lightbg   NOT system-gschemrc


John Eaton

-----Original Message-----
From: John Griessen [mailto:john_g@cibolo.com]
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 9:34 AM
To: geda-user@seul.org
Subject: Re: gEDA-user: background color and PNG out


On Friday 30 August 2002 10:58 am, EATON,JOHN (HP-Vancouver,ex1) wrote:
> do was get it's output to a plotter. Now it's more important to
> get graphical output combined into documents and published on
> websites and in pdf files.
>
>
> John Eaton
Was it right on this list that the .svg vector drawing file format was 
mentioned?   There was some mention that it is becoming a standard... 
Does someone else know more about the likely standards of vector output?

John Griessen