Christian Lohmaier wrote: > > To turn that back into a development discussion - using ghostscript > > out-of-process, like we do it for xpdf/poppler, to convert (e)ps > > into something digestible by LibreOffice is one of the long-pending > > solutions to that problem. > > That is what LO already does - as last choice when the two preferred > alternatives are not present. > Hi Christian,
hah, now I recall - you even worked on that, no? Anyhow, sorry! :) > > That needs a fair bit of hacking, but would love to provide you or > > anyone else interested with code pointers. > > Given that the preview is used for printing, one halfway solution is > to not only create a replacement when the eps doesn't have one > already, but always. > When there is no preview in the eps, LO tries to run pstoedit (output > as emf), convert (output as png) or ghostscript (output as 8bit color > png, at least older versions often had problems with orientation). > What I had in mind is a somewhat more tight integration of gs - that yields high-level vector information w/o the need for an intermediary format. Cheers, -- Thorsten
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