On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Matej Cepl wrote:
> The most simple way is to install a vector drawing program. If you are
> on Linux, then Sketch is what I use and I am very happy with that (yes,
> it can import and export EPS via pstoedit).
Matej,
Allow me to offer another tool for the same end: xfig. Get a copy of
pstoedit to convert ps (or eps) files to xfig's .fig format, then use xfig
to twiddle it as you wish. Xfig (and transfig) come with most distributions.
I used it Thursday on a Web page I had printed to disk that occupied 25M
as an .epsi file because of a bunch of text (which I did not want) external
to the figure (which I did want). Running the epsi file through pstoedit,
then deleting the undesired text in xfig left me with a tiny file; much less
than 1M. It also reduced the size of the pdf file LyX produced by 90%.
Rich
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