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 I'm glad to know that I wasn't the only one with a crummy system too old/small/outdated to handle that file.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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
