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Re: .pdf, .png [message #18492 is a reply to message #18488]

Wed, 05 January 2000 00:00

David G. Grier
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Registered: September 1997

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Liam Gumley wrote:

> Does anyone else see a need for PDF graphics output in IDL? What would I
> do with a single page of PDF graphics? Can I insert it into a document
> (as I would with Postscript)?

PDF graphics are useful for people creating PDF documents with pdftex or
pdflatex.
Most existing pdftex implementations can import PDF graphics, but not
PostScript
(one exception being VTEX, a commercial variant). Open source pdftex
implementations also can import PNG, JPEG, and some other bitmap formats,

but lose the benefit of vector graphics.

I've been quite satisfied converting IDL PostScript graphics to PDF with
ghostscript's ps2pdf. This should be a fairly general solution since
ghostscript
runs on a wide variety of platforms. And it's free. Consequently, I don't

see a real need for IDL to tack on PDF support.

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