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

Kevin O'Gorman

2008-04-15

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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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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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