Re: Strange success story

[Andrew Ferrier <andrew junk new-destiny co uk>]

On 2002-08-26 at 15:21 -0500, Lars Clausen wrote:

> > You're probably already aware, but Ghostview etc. do a
> > pretty good job of viewing both EPS and PS on Windows these
> > days. It is of course fair to say that they are probably
> > not as widely installed as Acrobat Reader, but they are
> > free software (speech not beer). Mind you, the people in
> > your environment may not care :)
>
> 'Twould be nice to have PDF output as well.  Anybody
> knowledgeable of PDF?

It would be non-trivial, I know that much. Personally I'd
suggest that if PDF output were to be added, that dia put it
through ps2pdf or something instead of doing it itself. Mind
you, I've never found any PS to PDF converter entirely
satisfactory.

> > Perhaps it might be wise, on another tangent, to add a
> > --printtofile option or similar to dia so that this could be
> > done from the command line? What do people think?  If the
> > consensus is that it's a good idea, I'll add it as an
> > enhancement bug.
>
> I guess that is different from the --export option, since
> there is no .ps export.  Maybe we should have that.

My thoughts precisely. I'll file it as an enhancement.

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Andrew Ferrier

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