Peter TB Brett wrote: > On Tuesday 21 October 2008 18:45:29 Joerg wrote: >> John Doty wrote: >> >>> Different culture. Dense text, small print, and tiny graphics are >>> normal in scientific publication. I just grabbed a conference >>> proceedings volume at random from the shelf, and in seconds found a >>> page (14 by 22 cm) with nine separate plots of data from 19 >>> independent data cuts. I'd need a magnifier to see all the details. >>> Pretty common. High page charges and/or page limits dictate form, and >>> historically reference libraries didn't want to keep lots of low >>> resolution paper (but now they're getting rid of paper, and >>> physically disappearing). >> Yep. I did a few and they always told me "You've got x pages. If you go >> over that you'll have to pay and it'll be lots of money". BTW, I did all >> of them without LaTex or any other high-faluting power software ... > > This is getting really heavily off-topic now. Yes, some people like vector > graphics for document preparation, some prefer bitmaps. We could debate the > relative merits all day, but there seems little point in doing so on this > mailing list! > > The fact that gschem's PNG export isn't ideal has been noted, and some > workarounds suggested. Flogging a dead horse won't make it run faster! >
Yes, true. At least a couple work-arounds have been mentioned. And we did not get into any politics ;-) -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user