Re: nice b&w EPS from Gnumeric charts?

["Vladimir Chukharev" <chu kemia me tut fi>]

On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 10:00:32 +0300, Jeffery von Ronne <jronne ics uci edu> wrote:

> Does anyone know of a good way to get nice black & white EPS from
> Gnumeric charts?  I've got some charts in Gnumeric that I want to
> include in PhD dissertation (which is written latex), but I'm having
> trouble getting something decent out of Gnumeric.
>
> I tried the "Save as" function, which allows PNGs, JPEGs, and SVGs.
> PNGs and JPEGs are, of course, inadequate because they're raster
> format and need to be made huge in order to have sufficient quality.
> But the SVG export is also inadequate because it doesn't support the
> patterns on my bars in my barchart, and since my dissertation needs to
> be black and white I need the patterns in order to distinguish the
> different items in the legend.
>
> The other thing I tried was to do a "print to file" and then convert
> that to EPS, but the file resulting file is huge and doesn't look very
> nice in "gv."
>
> Is it possible to get a nice EPS out of a Gnumeric chart?
> (I'm using Gnumeric 1.5.2; I was using 1.4.3, but I upgraded
> to see if that would help, but it didn't seem to.)

I don't have a solution. As a workaround you can export
as SVG, then transform it to EPS.
I used to edit the SVG files made by gnumeric with
inkscape, later saving them as EPS files.

As to black and white - I aways made it either right in gnumeric,
or in the system where the EPS files were used.

I use *BSD (or Linux), don't know if inkscape for win exists.

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V.Chukharev