P� torsdag, 30 september 2004, skrev Peter Jay Salzman: [...] > Henry, suboptimal is right! :( I think I'll save to pdf and print using > acroread. Neither method is optimal, but installing new software is less > palatable...
Indeed. Now a lot of packages are identical on testing and unstable, which makes testing more-or-less useless. On a related note, I have also been having a frustrating time working with graphics in OO. I have about 20 plots of economic data. I generated these using gnuplot --- perhaps you saw my previous messages about that. Despite gnuplot's quirky interface and documentation, its output quality rocks pretty hard. I tried doing one plot in OO and quickly gave up after I ended up with something that resembled a child's toy dataplot. The frustration is does not support any decent vector format! Rasterizing my plots is not a good option, since the printed output need to look decent. OO does not know how to rasterize EPS on-screen, so EPS graphic objects in OOWriter look very ugly, though they print at high quality. OO does not support SVG at all. The only choice is EMF (enhanced windows metafile), which displays nicely on-screen, though its print quality is inferior to EPS. I went with it anyway, since my clients to be able to work with my document using their proprietary windows software. I suspect that EMF is the best-supported format on windows and that EPS is risky. I can't test this because my office is all-Linux now. I am interested in others' observations about exchanging graphics embedded in word-processor documents across platforms. -- Henry House Please don't send me HTML mail! My mail system will reject it. The unintelligible text that may follow is a digital signature. See <http://hajhouse.org/pgp> to find out how to use it. My OpenPGP key: <http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>.
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