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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Images & PDF output
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 03:48:14PM +0100, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: > > > It looks mildly cute. But I think it makes my point. an unstable 0.6 > > > version package which doesn't claim to support all of SVG? Limited to > > > Latin1 encoding? thats what I call bleeding edge. > > > > Did you have alternative (free, unix) implementations for PDF in mind? > > You haven't said what you want an implementation of. I just installed > Sketch, I was impressed, very nice. But I don't do that kind of > drawing. If I want a formal sort of diagram, I use a markup language > like PSTricks (in LaTeX), or Metapost. Things like this: http://www.daemonnews.org/200003/netgraph.html > Metapost rewritten to produce SVG, that would be nice. And rewritten > so that its input language was XML I've had a look at MetaPost. However, I've got to try and keep the FreeBSD Documentation Project as accessible as possible -- adding a language like MetaPost to the list of requirements for a contributor would make me very unpopular. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery
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