Re: Getting vector graphics from dia to MS Office

[Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere teaser fr>]

On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 02:28, Justin Gombos wrote:

> > For MacOS X CoreGraphics graphic layer, it is PDF.  PICT is still
> > supported and used when QuickDraw, the old graphic layer, is used
> > (which is the case in lof of "ported" apps, like MSFT's, Adobe's,
> > Macromedia's, etc).
> 
> I read that the PICT format was obsolete, substandard, and not
> recommended for anything.. but they didn't give any specifics.  

Not really true. The problem is that it is versatile and you can feed it
with proprietary things like data encoded in some strange ways. But
since we talk about generating it, this is not a problem.

As for the obseleteness, we can say it is sort of obsolete, but it still
works.

> So far I've found PICT to be the only practical way to get a dia
> vector image into M$ Word/Powerpoint.. though I'm unsure at this point
> whether it's a vector image or whether it's getting converted to
> Raster along the way.  The file is binary, so I'm speculating that
> ImageMagick is not capable of producing vectors.

It is a raster. ImageMagick use ghostscript to raster EPS and then stuff
the rasterized version into a PICT file (or whatever).


Hub