Re: [Veusz-discuss] Qt drops PostScript output

Hi, that mysterious reason is, that they have old parsing pipelines which where upgraded enough to reshape the text and give a printable layout to it for proceedings. If one uses Tex, one doesn't have any of these troubles because any tex editor will have e/ps output option and papers in

Re: [Veusz-discuss] Qt drops PostScript output

Hi all, Going further into the discussion, it is true that many journals nowadays accept pdf, but for some mysterious reason, they prefer EPS in their publications. Anyhow, I just now save a graph that I have in PDF and did not observe many differences from the EPS output. So I assume that it

Re: [Veusz-discuss] Qt drops PostScript output

yes, but it also accepts svg... On Tue, 19 Jul 2016 11:26:06 +0200 Michael Clerx wrote: > Not sure it's just ancient academic pipelines. Libreoffice impress > accepts eps images but not pdf... > > > > On 07/18/2016 11:16 PM, Christian Ambros wrote: > > Hi, > > > > it

Re: [Veusz-discuss] Qt drops PostScript output

Not sure it's just ancient academic pipelines. Libreoffice impress accepts eps images but not pdf... On 07/18/2016 11:16 PM, Christian Ambros wrote: Hi, it depends whether one is working in more old school scientific areas where the benefits of pdf over e/ps aren't that present and the

Re: [Veusz-discuss] Qt drops PostScript output

Hi, it depends whether one is working in more old school scientific areas where the benefits of pdf over e/ps aren't that present and the people stick to there very old pipelines, they are using for 20 years. You can't teach an old dog new tricks! But getting rid of e/ps is overdue for at least

Re: [Veusz-discuss] Qt drops PostScript output

hi all, I myself use a lot this output, specially in the EPS extension... But after reading, it would be possible/easy to implement a call to ghostscript to make the conversion from pdf or other format to eps/ps? I am no programmer, so it is possible that I am speaking nonsense... Regards,

Re: [Veusz-discuss] Qt drops PostScript output

All, I mostly use pdf, but sometimes I end up with very big pdf files (produced by pdflatex, when including many pictures). I then use ghostscript to read the pdf and save another pdf that ends up much smaller. Where this is related is that I believe gs uses ps as the in between format. So I

Re: [Veusz-discuss] Qt drops PostScript output

On 17/07/16 18:12, Michael Clerx wrote: Thanks for the heads-up! I've never used ps, but often use eps. Is eps output affected? Unfortunately, yes. There are tools to covert PDF to EPS, but I don't know if they are good enough. Cheers Jeremy

[Veusz-discuss] Qt drops PostScript output

Hi - Emmanuel has noticed that Qt 5 has dropped Postscript support - see https://github.com/jeremysanders/veusz/issues/152 If we're going to move to Qt 5 soon (Qt 4 is no longer supported), we'll need to use drop PostScript, use some sort of external library or implement our own output.