Re: CVS PDF-docs

[Jonathan Larmour <jifl at eCosCentric dot com>]

Iztok Zupet wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 October 2002 03:12, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
>
> > But JPG is a crappy format for screenshots. I  guess Jade doesn't support
> > GIFs due to the long-standing patent issue. Do you know if Jade supports
> > other more suitable bitmap formats? PNG would be ideal I guess. The
> > "convert" utility supports that and quite a few others certainly.
>
> I guess the possibilities we have with pdfjadetex are limited to these 
> Gin@extensions={.pdf,.png,.jpg,.mps,.tif}.
>
>  I tried with pdf, png and jpg.  Convesion to pdf (via eps) is possible, but 
> seems to give a crappy picture. Png works, but it's not so well supported on 
> windows. Jpeg seems to work (sharp enough) for both outputs.
Png is certainly supported by MSIE and has been for a while now. In what 
circumstances are you finding it unsupported?

> > So you're saying it's no better than the alternative after all?
>
> Not Yet, I'm still just experimenting, since the seem to have left out the 
> stuff from pdfjadetex documentation. Nothing final.
>
> My friend, who used to work a lot with TeX, says that the pictures get 
> incorporated into the final pdf, when the dvi that jadetex produces gets 
> converted. They are not manipulated by TeX engine in any way, just anchored.
Unless pdfjadetex _does_ manipulate them first before passing to TeX of 
course :-).

Jifl
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