postscript for me please, I view by ghostview on Windows machine.
Allso useful for high-definition printing and zooming in and out of
the vector diagram.

Store it as a vector file.

On 3/11/07, Jon Elson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Matthew Glenn Shaver wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 21:51 -0600, Jon Elson wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Getting into the virus writing business, Matt?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Sorry, I've taken that directory down now. I don't really know what to
> >do to display really large images. I can make postscript (and
> >presumably .pdf files), .svg, and lots of bitmap formats which,
> >obviously, aren't working out so well... On my personal system I could
> >display all but the top three files without crashing :( .
> >
> >
> Don't do bitmaps, those are really inefficient at that sort of a
> document.  (Compressed
> bitmaps might not be so bad, but they still don't scale all that well.)
>
> >Some possibilities:
> >
> >1. PDF file (less mem intensive???)
> >
> >
> PDF is quite robust, I've downloaded all sorts of crazy manuals, like
> scanned-in printed
> documents that were insanely large files, and they worked without
> trouble.  I was kind of
> surprised to have trouble with that file, and suspect it is close to a
> program bug in the
> PNG viewer under Linux, and not really a problem with the png files
> themselves.
> I'm glad to know that I wasn't the only one with a crummy system too
> old/small/outdated
> to handle that file.
>
> PostScript is pretty good for the Linux crowd (and who the hell else
> would want to read these,
> anyway?) so you might see if GhostView can handle these.  They will be a
> lot bigger than the
> png, but if they just work, that may not matter.
>
> I have published a number of circuit diagrams and board/connector layout
> drawings on my
> web pages in png, and was surprised at the problems.  But, they are all
> fairly small.
>
> Jon
>
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