Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Images and pdf again

[Thomas Andre Berger <thomasbe at osc dot no>]

camille@mandrakesoft.com writes:

> first of all, resizing of images does not work. Using that:
> <imagedata fileref="image.gif" format="gif" width="3in"
> scalefit="1"> has strictly no effect on the rendered size of the
> image.
> 
> Secondly, I've read that one may use the epdf format, but which
> format="" option should I use? The list of supported formats does
> not include EPDF.
> 
> My problem is that I have high res images for which I don't want to
> perform a resizing, just change the resolution as in EPS files for
> postscript output.

What we do, is using PNG files for graphics.  PNG supports setting
resolution and jadetex produces PDF nicely with it.  But you need a
tool that handles PNG resolution (like GhostScript >= 5.50).  So we
pre-prepare the graphics before using jade.  The bad thing is that you
cannot specify within the SGML-document your resolution.

For structured vector graphics, we use the epstopdf tool, which
produces encapsulated PDF.  We use plain PDF notation for this.

Hope this helps,
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