Rich Shepard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Yes. If you follow the directions for adding ps4pdf to LyX you'll have a > new choice, PDF4, on the View and File->Export menus. Use those.
I've found something in wiki, is that the right thing? > Others need to address this. There are so many high quality applications > for vector graphics that one could spend a lot of time evaluating them all > and trying to select the "best". What I did was consider the needs I had, > found a couple of solutions, learned to use them, and ignored the rest. This > is not to suggest that everyone should do the same. Still, it's very good advice. Better to master one package, then to encounter many and know none. > What are you drawing? I intend to illustrate my slides with a clipart-like drawings & combine them with e.g. openclipart library. > How much time do you want to spend on each figure? This one is not easy to estimate atm. > Are you sufficiently fluent in one of the drawing languages (such as > PSTricks and pgf) that you can create what you want as quickly as with > a visual editor (such as tgif, jPicEdit, ipe and a ton of others)? No. I'm just beginning with this stuff, and although I could dive in into PSTricks and pgf, I'll probably get some help from my better half and she will be more comfortable with Inkscape, GIMP...using some simple tablet. That's why I'm talking about e.g. inkscape & LyX. > What I find amusing is that those stuck behind the > supposedly-bullet-proof Windows have so few choices and those of us > in the F/OSS world spend a lot of time trying to wade through the > plethora of choices. And, they're all good ones. I fully agree, but people are belong to the weird species :-) Sincerely, Gour -- Registered Linux User | #278493 GPG Public Key | 8C44EDCD
