DJ Delorie wrote:
> Joerg <notthisjoergsch@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>> Well, that's what I tried, image writing to PNG. The result was
>> rather ugly and at some write sizes plain not readable. EPS was
>> refused by IrfanView with something like "file contains errors".
>
> A quick check of their website leads to this question... Do you have
> ghostscript installed? IrfanView "sup****ts" eps by having ghostscript
> convert it to a raster, which will make it ugly again.
>
I think it's GSView what I'd really need.
> What I recommend is ex****ting EPS and converting it to PDF, then use
> acroread to view/print it.
>
Well, I don't need to read/print but folks like me must often include
snippets and complete pages of schematics in Word do***ents, usually as
figures with captions. Mostly to explain circuitry to folks who won't
understand it by just looking at the schematic.
> Or I use ghostscript convert the EPS to an anti-aliased PNG, which
> results in better quality than gschem's default PNG ex****ter.
Some friends in a German NG convinced me to give Linux a shot and
coached me a bit through the maze of VirtualBox and Ubuntu, then gschem.
So I poked around a bit after evince didn't work and, tada, found that
Gimp (which comes with the distro as default) does the job nicely. So
it'll go like this:
gschem write image to EPS format. EPS into Gimp (takes a while), set to
300dpi, cut unwanted areas, store as PNG file. Im****t PNG file into Word
do***ent. A bit ***bersome but that produces an acceptable quality,
quite comparable to Eagle schematic ex****ts :-)
I don't know squat about programming but if you guys ever think of
improving this ex****t feature maybe a lot of the work can be reduced by
using code parts from Gimp so that gschem can do a straight write as a
300dpi (or even selectable resolution) PNG file.
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Regards, Joerg
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