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Re: Graphics formats
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 19:04 +0200, Justus Piater wrote:
> > Did you know that Adobe bought Macromedia?
>
> Is this good news or bad news? More likely good, I guess...
I really don't know.
What do people think?
>
> >> I wrote a couple of Java classes for converting SVG <-> EPS based
> >> on batik. E-mail me if you're interested.
> >
> > How do *you* get from SVG to eps? Please?
>
> I guess this is an "E-mail" from someone "interested"...
Curious... or something.
>
> I've written (rather, adapted) a Java class for use with batik
> 1.5. You can download it at
>
> http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~piater/code/SVG2PS.java
>
> Disclaimer: This is code I wrote for my own needs. It works for me,
> but it might make your computer explode. Don't blame me. But you can
> e-mail me with questions.
Isn't that a fair definition of open source?
Thanks Justus.
>
> I also wanted to add that my home-brew solution for the other
> direction (EPS -> SVG) relies on pstoedit to produce Java, and then
> batik to produce SVG. I've experimented with several different
> multi-step conversions, and this one seemed to yield the best-quality
> SVG (though still far from perfect).
>
> Hope this helps,
Thank you Justus.
regards DaveP