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Re: gEDA-user: improve PNG output quality
Peter TB Brett wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 October 2008 17:10:15 Joerg wrote:
>> Stefan Salewski wrote:
>>> Am Montag, den 20.10.2008, 12:00 -0700 schrieb Joerg:
>>>> OO does not import EPS files well, sometimes not at all.
>>> I am really surprised that OO has (still) problems with important vector
>>> formats EPS and PDF. Including measurement data as bitmap graphics in
>>> scientific papers, diploma and PhD-Thesis is a crime in my opinion. So I
>>> will go on using LaTeX.
>>>
>>> Thanks for reporting this!
>> Personally I think this super-duper-quality requirement for scientific
>> papers is overblown. I use 300dpi PNG format almost exclusively in my
>> business docs and some of those go straight to the board room. Even with
>> 20:20 vision you can't see any difference to professionally printed stuff.
>
> It's really nice to generate just one set of graphs/diagrams and use them both
> for small diagrams in papers and also on A1 posters without any hassle. But
> hey, you're entitled to your opinion.
>
> Not to mention that my perfect-at-any-scale vector graphics will pretty much
> always be at least an order of magnitude smaller on-disk and in-email than
> your PNGs will be. :P
>
Agree, vector is certainly the better format for black and white style
line art, such as schematics. After all, that's what HPGL was.
Unfortunately the office application folks don't seem to understand that
so us guys must use what their products can reliably (meaning not just
sometimes) read in.
>> In the old days (OrCAD SDT and Word-5 for DOS) I used HPGL which was
>> really nice. But that has fallen from grace and most text programs can't
>> even import it anymore. AFAICT gschem cannot generate it either.
>
> A quick Google turned up a bunch of programs for converting from HPGL to
> PostScript.
>
Yep, and PS can often not be reliably read into text editors either :-(
I have an older copy of IrfanView somewhere that could still read in
HPGL (via a plug-in) and then store it back in a more compatible format.
Thing is, you'll always have to use a "go-between" program for that. In
the early 90's we could directly import HPGL into Word. But we didn't
have so much good beer back then so this doesn't mean the world was
necessarily better ...
--
Regards, Joerg
http://www.analogconsultants.com/
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