Re: Strange success story

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Andrew Ferrier wrote:
> On 2002-08-26 at 10:46 -0400, Tim Ellis wrote:
>
> > Acrobat Reader is a pretty common install. Interestingly, EPS
> > files and most every other sort of vector graphic file
> > format, including PS, aren't viewable on Microsoft systems
> > without special software.
>
> You're probably already aware, but Ghostview etc. do a pretty
> good job of viewing both EPS and PS on Windows these days. It
> is of course fair to say that they are probably not as widely
> installed as Acrobat Reader, but they are free software (speech
> not beer). Mind you, the people in your environment may not
> care :)

'Twould be nice to have PDF output as well.  Anybody knowledgeable of PDF?

> Perhaps it might be wise, on another tangent, to add a
> --printtofile option or similar to dia so that this could be
> done from the command line? What do people think?  If the
> consensus is that it's a good idea, I'll add it as an
> enhancement bug.

I guess that is different from the --export option, since there is no .ps
export.  Maybe we should have that.

-Lars

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