[gentoo-user] Recommend a program for line art and text

[gentoo-user] Recommend a program for line art and text

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I've tried creating diagrams in xfig.  It works fine for my LaTeX
documents, but does not export well to PNG for use in web pages.

Should I export to something else?  Are there options on PNG I'm not
aware of (would not surprise me in the least).

Should I use something else to author my diagrams?

Example:

http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~kogorman/453/projects/2/06f453-A2-stack.png
Which is a bit blurry, even though I've tried to keep the pixels aligned.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend a program for line art and text

[Kevin O'Gorman]

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On 1/30/07, Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@web.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:26:37 -0800 "Kevin O'Gorman"
> <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've tried creating diagrams in xfig.  It works fine for my LaTeX
> > documents, but does not export well to PNG for use in web pages.
>
>
> Hm, what do you mean by saying "not so well"? If it's just that it
> isn't antialiased as good as you'd like it to be, then just export it
> at higher resolution and scale it down with some pix-image tool
> afterwards.
>
> Aside from that, it really depends on what diagrams you're creating.
> Personally, I turned away from xfig a bit, but that's mostly due to its
> interface. I like dia for flow-charts and similar stuff and inkscape
> for more graphic intensive stuff.
>
> -hwh


Fooling with bitmap resolutions gives me a headache, and I havent' figured
out
how to make it look good on screen and also good when printed.  My students
print my pages a lot.

Thanks for Inkscape, tho -- it is perfect for me.  I like the interface, and
since it saves
in SVG format, I get web pages without the intermediate bitmap bother. The
results are much better

++ kevin

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Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend a program for line art and text

[Liviu Andronic]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 1:26 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
>  Should I use something else to author my diagrams?
>

You might try Dia or grace.
Liviu
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