Carl-Johan Sveningsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Robert Schiffers wrote:
>
> > searching in the direction of illustrator i would like to promote "sketch"
> > again. it's certainly not the perfect tool with all functions like some of
> > the classic window/mac stuff, but i
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Carl-Johan Sveningsson wrote:
> Yes, but now I remember why I never got to install sketch. It's a mess to
> get to work!
Yup. Been there, done that.
Check out xfig (http://www.xfig.org). A pleasure to install and use,
especially for those of us who used the DOS products
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2000-10-17 at 1813.20 +0200):
> > http://sketch.sourceforge.net/
> Yes, but now I remember why I never got to install sketch. It's a mess to
> get to work! I requires python (no worries, I have that), but also PIL,
> some python-library to work with images. I couldn't get PIL to
which distribution do you use? did you read the installation instructions
carefully? i think there were some traps concerning PIL hjich are easy to solve.
finally i thought some days ago, that the drawing tool of star office 5.2 could
be interesting too.
robert
Carl-Johan Sveningsson wrote:
>
Hi James, all,
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, James Smaby wrote:
> I typeset all of my things with plain TeX. This is much nastier
> than LaTeX, but I learned it in a year or so. I also use ps2pdf
> quite often on the output, so that I can print from window boxes
> in the labs, and the output is just fin
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Robert Schiffers wrote:
> searching in the direction of illustrator i would like to promote "sketch"
> again. it's certainly not the perfect tool with all functions like some of
> the classic window/mac stuff, but it's quit promissing. it can combine
> pixel/vector graphics wi
Hi all,
> and to make it somewhat easier: pdflatex???
>
> There is an interesting alternative to LaTeX called ConTeXt. Look at
> http://www.pragma-ade.nl for some examples what you can do with ConTeXt.
> It's very easy to produce good looking PDF documents with interactivity.
> So my proposed
>PDF would be great, so what I now wonder, how good is really ps2pdf? It
>can't be Adobe Distiller but does it even does the work properly? Are
>vector-graphics converted to bitmaps somwhere in the process?
I typeset all of my things with plain TeX. This is much nastier
than LaTeX, but I learne
uli wrote on Mon, 09 Okt 2000:
>Carl-Johan Sveningsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> But still presents the problem of producing a nice ps then. Typesetting in
>> LyX *shiver* or LaTeX _is_ possible. But it's not nice. Yes, what I'm
>> looking for _is_ something like Illustrator/PageMaker/Dist
Searching Freshmeat on "pdf" gives alot of different pdf things. There
is a pdflib with lots of documentation (if you can code). I got this
link from the front page of Freshmeat this weekend, the "Panda PDF
Generator". I haven't compiled it yet, and there isn't much online
documentation. But th
searching in the direction of illustrator i would like to promote "sketch"
again. it's certainly not the perfect tool with all functions like some of
the classic window/mac stuff, but it's quit promissing. it can combine
pixel/vector graphics with simple text etc. it uses layers and it has an pdf
Carl-Johan Sveningsson wrote:
>
> > > Well, it may sound confused, and is only sligthly gimp-related (it's my
> > > favourite tool), but can someone inform me of the best way to create
> > > _good_ portable documents, preferrably under linux, preferrably without
> > > spending thousands of bucks
Carl-Johan Sveningsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But still presents the problem of producing a nice ps then. Typesetting in
> LyX *shiver* or LaTeX _is_ possible. But it's not nice. Yes, what I'm
> looking for _is_ something like Illustrator/PageMaker/Distiller...It's
> aiming very high, but
> hi there
Hello.
> don't know what kind of data you want to add to your pdf files, but
Different stuff. Pixmap images, vectorized ones... One of the important
things is that netscape does a crappy job in printing images, you can't
have resolutions greater than 72 dpi, is it?
Gimp in turn does
hi there
don't know what kind of data you want to add to your pdf files, but what about
Ghostscript? it hink it does a good job in converting *.ps into a lot of
formats, includiding pdf.
robert
> Ok, my point seemingly didn't make it through...when saying "portable
> documents", I was more ai
uot;clemensF" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Pdf, eps, ps? (Was: xcf --> eps)
> > > Well, it may sound confused, and is only sligthly gimp-related (it's
my
> > > favourite tool), but can s
> > Well, it may sound confused, and is only sligthly gimp-related (it's my
> > favourite tool), but can someone inform me of the best way to create
> > _good_ portable documents, preferrably under linux, preferrably without
> > spending thousands of bucks on Adobe software?
>
> ASCII text. you
> Carl-Johan Sveningsson:
> Well, it may sound confused, and is only sligthly gimp-related (it's my
> favourite tool), but can someone inform me of the best way to create
> _good_ portable documents, preferrably under linux, preferrably without
> spending thousands of bucks on Adobe software?
AS
> Type filename.eps, the PostScript dialog appears, with Encapsulated
> option checked. Easy. After all, EPS is a type of PS, no?
That's neat! But, maybe after all it should be listed as an ordinary
format?
> I think none directly, XCF is Gimp's format. Maybe in the future, but
> I know none now
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