> > Been working with xcircuit. It saves in PS but can
> be
> > made into a jpeg which looked just as sharp as the
> > original.
>
> If you zoom into that jpeg fat enough you will see
> pixillation. I
> don't think this will be the case with the
> postscript file, which is
> indeed a vector (or vectorish?) format.
>
> You're better off converting the PS file to PDF -
> PDF is fairly
> postscript-based, so this is an easy conversion, and
> PDF supports
> vector-based drawings (as well as bitmaps).
>
> If you zoom in on a curve on the PDF using Acrobat
> (or whatever) you
> should find that you never see pixillation at all -
> this is the joy
> of vectors. Admittedly this is a fairly moot point
> with a small
> schematic, but I would imagine it would be
> considered far more
> elegant for much larger ones or (particularly) for
> PCB layouts.
xcircuit should suffice for my needs. You can right
click the files in konqueror and save them to jpegs,
pngs etc. No one's going to bother zooming in on any
of them.
mw
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