On Mon, 17 May 1999, Marcin Kasperski wrote:
> I found myself doing repeatable the following:
> - export dia to eps
> - ogonkify this eps
> - convert eps to gif with some scaling (with ImageMagick convert)
> - remove the eps
> I finally wrote script which does those tasks but I still need to jump
> to terminal to run it.
>
> I think dia could benefit from "Custom export" which would allow user to
> specify export command (dia would just export to eps as usual, then run
> the specified command on the eps file and maybe finally remove the eps).
> Using ImageMagick convert it would be fairly easy to add "export to
> almost anything" pre-defined commands.
It seems a better way would be to write an image renderer so that you
won't have to go via eps to get an image (gif, tiff, png, whatever).
It would have pretty much in common with the current gdk_renderer i
think...
/ Alex
