Re: Diagram Linking

[Maciej Jaros <egil wp pl>]

Ron Wilson (2011-06-16 19:04):
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 8:00 AM,<dia-list-request gnome org>  wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:05:09 +0200
> > From: Hans Breuer<hans breuer org>
> > To: dia-list gnome org
> >
> > At 15.06.2011 19:55, Vikram Subramanian wrote:
> > > I think that is really a cool feature. In fact that will improve the
> > > presentation features of dia.
> > What is the "presentation feature" of Dia ...
> > > Ideally, we have to insert jpegs, pngs (both are lossy)
> > [ No PNG are _not_ lossy. That's the reason it is choosen to save the
> > inline data. See: http://git.gnome.org/browse/dia/tree/lib/prop_pixbuf.c#n157 ]

Actually PNG can be consider lossy when you think of making it from 
vector data (you no longer can e.g. select text, you might even loose 
some small details) - I assume that's what Vikram meant.

Ron Wilson (2011-06-16 19:04):
> For presentations, I export to SVG, then use a Perl script to take a
> list of diagrams and insert navigation links. Then any web browser
> that supports SVG can be used as the presentation viewer.

That sounds interesting! Could you share this script (preferably along 
with some simple diagram/-s).

Regards,
Nux.