Where is the fun about ps-export when neither gradients nor imported pngs nor transparency attributes are being exported? Alright, it just that this would be handy for me right now. And speaking of it, ps2pdf always creates A4 documents, as ist seems. Does anybody know how to have it export A3 or any customized format? Or does anybody know another app for it?
David
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 09:46:02PM +0200, David Christian Berg wrote:
Where is the fun about ps-export when neither gradients nor imported pngs nor transparency attributes are being exported? Alright, it just that this would be handy for me right now. And speaking of it, ps2pdf always creates A4 documents, as ist seems. Does anybody know how to have it export A3 or any customized format? Or does anybody know another app for it?
I was going to suggest using "-sPAPERSIZE=a3" (since "ps2pdf" is a ghostscript tool: "man gs") but in playing with it, it seems like it keeps the paper size of the PS file coming into it.
David Christian Berg wrote:
Where is the fun about ps-export when neither gradients nor imported pngs nor transparency attributes are being exported?
I have the source to a very old project somewhere that does a bitmap dump to PS. Maybe we can add that functionality. It is very simple. If I cannot find it, then maybe we can borrow the code from ImageMagick.
Thing is, though, there might need to be an option for 1) Full color 2) Greyscale 3) Halftoning
... according to the abilities of the printer or viewing program.
Bob
Bob
On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 10:44, Bob Jamison wrote:
David Christian Berg wrote:
Where is the fun about ps-export when neither gradients nor imported pngs nor transparency attributes are being exported?
Actually, a lot of tools are starting to support Postscript which includes the the PDF alpha extensions now.
(PDF itself is not straight postscript, but it uses Postscript fragments for vector operations)
We should probably look into that.
-mental
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, David Christian Berg wrote:
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 21:46:02 +0200 From: David Christian Berg <david.berg@...240...> Reply-To: david@...139... To: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-devel] ps-export
Where is the fun about ps-export when neither gradients nor imported pngs nor transparency attributes are being exported? Alright, it just that this would be handy for me right now. And speaking of it, ps2pdf always creates A4 documents, as ist seems. Does anybody know how to have it export A3 or any customized format? Or does anybody know another app for it?
It should be possible to build Inkscape with support for Gnome-Print (Sodipodi had it). Gnome-Print allows you to print to PDF.
I haven't tried it, if you do please let us know how it goes.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
Alan Horkan wrote:
It should be possible to build Inkscape with support for Gnome-Print (Sodipodi had it). Gnome-Print allows you to print to PDF.
Not only that, it should mean that our print dialog understands cups, so I don't have to go via xfig to get reasonable output.
njh
On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 09:03, Alan Horkan wrote:
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, David Christian Berg wrote:
Where is the fun about ps-export when neither gradients nor imported pngs nor transparency attributes are being exported? Alright, it just that this would be handy for me right now. And speaking of it, ps2pdf always creates A4 documents, as ist seems. Does anybody know how to have it export A3 or any customized format? Or does anybody know another app for it?
It should be possible to build Inkscape with support for Gnome-Print (Sodipodi had it). Gnome-Print allows you to print to PDF.
I haven't tried it, if you do please let us know how it goes.
It compiles and runs, but unfortunately it has never been upgraded to a modern gnomeprintui. So, there currently is no dialog for selecting what printer or any other setting on the output (like print to PDF). I think this should be an easy/well documented project if someone wants to pick it up. You should just have to modify the 'setup' function in /src/extension/internal/gnome.cpp.
--Ted
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