Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Images & PDF output

[Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>]

On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 10:42:17AM +0100, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>  > The other choice in the running for vector graphics was EPS.  But I don't
>  > know of any free packages that can use EPS as a native format, and retain
>  > additional information about the diagram (like grouping of different 
>  > elements).
>
> Mayura Draw? or is that not free?

It's not available on the target platform (specifically, FreeBSD, but more
generally, Unix).

>  > Sketch (http://sketch.sourceforge.net/) is a CorelDraw-a-like, written
>  > in Python/Tk.  It's native format is not SVG, but it can read and write
>  > SVG files.  It also comes with a commandline converter that will do the
>  > SVG to EPS conversion.
> 
> 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?

N
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