Re: Request: dia2png, dia2eps, dia2etc...

[Dan Bolser <dmb mrc-dunn cam ac uk>]

On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Grégoire Dooms wrote:

> Dan Bolser wrote:
>
> > I would like a little command line tool to do the equivelent of opening a
> > dia file in dia, selecting export, selecting format and filename, saving,
> > quiting dia.
> >
> > The command could work like 
> >
> > dia2png dia-file [options]
> >
> > options:
> >  -o output file name (default is dia-file.png)
> >  other options for the pingify routines
> >
> > dia2eps dia-file [options]
> >
> > etc.
> >
> > Would these apps be hard to roll out of the dia distribution?
> >  
> Pretty easy indeed just install dia ;-)

heh... Cheers :)

> man dia would have told you so...
> dia -e my_file.eps my_file.dia
> dia -e my_file.png my_file.dia
>
> however it seems there is a problem with color conversion for exporting 
> to png in command-line mode (in dia v0.94 w/ python plugin) :
> ** (dia-python:6038): WARNING **: Can't color_convert in non-interactive 
> app (w/o color_init())
> this problem doesn't happen in cvs without python plugin.
>
> Hope this helps,
> --
> Grégoire Dooms