Re: wysiwig TeX in dia

[James Michael DuPont <mdupont777 yahoo com>]

--- Cyrille Chepelov <cyrille@chepelov.org> wrote:
> Le Tue, Jun 18, 2002, à 03:18:05AM -0700, James
> Michael DuPont a écrit:
> 
> > But here is my try to answer :
> > I have been looking into the XPDF source code, it
> is
> > quite interesting. C++ classes that encapsulate
> the
> > drawing operations. Each ouput is an renderer,
> > It would be usefull to create a DIA output object
> for
> > it, so the drawing results in the DIA drawing
> objects.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Please read the source. You can conveniently grep
> for "Renderer".
> 
I have looked at the Renderer, that is an output
object, and it might be interesting, but I think the
original question was of inputting the Tex into Dia.

>Then
>pstoedit is called to translate the postscript to
>Sketch input format, which
>Sketch understands, and so the formatted text is
>displayed as a Sketch object.

The XPDF only contains an PDF interpreter, 
I was thinking about using that for building an PDF
import into DIA, but I dont think I explained myself
very well.

Once you get your TEX into PS or eps, then the Dia
seems to have a EPS and DXF import

PS converter to convert the diagram to DFX
http://home.t-online.de/home/helga.glunz/wglunz/pstoedit/

Mike


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James Michael DuPont

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