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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Images & PDF output
Nik Clayton writes: > > PDF is a good format. I know Adobe own it, but the format is > > published, and there are several free renderers. do you rule that out? > > PDF as a vector format or as a bitmap format? as vector > And could Adobe ever pull a Unisys and try and extract license fees for > it? I do not believe so, at this stage. But I am no lawyer. > Personally, I'm more comfortable using something like PNG as the master > (bitmap) format, and then converting to other formats as necessary. for bitmaps, agreed > The other choice in the running for vector graphics was EPS. But I don't > know of any free packages that can use EPS as a native format, and retain > additional information about the diagram (like grouping of different > elements). Mayura Draw? or is that not free? > Sketch (http://sketch.sourceforge.net/) is a CorelDraw-a-like, written > in Python/Tk. It's native format is not SVG, but it can read and write > SVG files. It also comes with a commandline converter that will do the > SVG to EPS conversion. It looks mildly cute. But I think it makes my point. an unstable 0.6 version package which doesn't claim to support all of SVG? Limited to Latin1 encoding? thats what I call bleeding edge. Sebastian
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