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Re: Images & PDF output
Nik Clayton writes:
> > PDF is a good format. I know Adobe own it, but the format is
> > published, and there are several free renderers. do you rule that out?
>
> PDF as a vector format or as a bitmap format?
as vector
> And could Adobe ever pull a Unisys and try and extract license fees for
> it?
I do not believe so, at this stage. But I am no lawyer.
> Personally, I'm more comfortable using something like PNG as the master
> (bitmap) format, and then converting to other formats as necessary.
for bitmaps, agreed
> The other choice in the running for vector graphics was EPS. But I don't
> know of any free packages that can use EPS as a native format, and retain
> additional information about the diagram (like grouping of different
> elements).
Mayura Draw? or is that not free?
> Sketch (http://sketch.sourceforge.net/) is a CorelDraw-a-like, written
> in Python/Tk. It's native format is not SVG, but it can read and write
> SVG files. It also comes with a commandline converter that will do the
> SVG to EPS conversion.
It looks mildly cute. But I think it makes my point. an unstable 0.6
version package which doesn't claim to support all of SVG? Limited to
Latin1 encoding? thats what I call bleeding edge.
Sebastian