From: luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Creating graphic file instead of PDF
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:51:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=QtHf+9eErdTESuaVwD5fNVTWMTzMk5QyhBth4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin=DY2b9dFK6wWUB6FZzd6zOAKrKcJFShqFBJnE@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Cecil Westerhof
<cldwesterhof@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/11/21 luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>:
>>>>> I am making flowcharts with ConTeXt. Because the flowcharts have to be
>>>>> included in other documents, I would like to make graphic files (jpeg,
>>>>> png, ...). Also not bigger as needed to represent the flowchart.
>>>>> Can this be done.
>>>> Just convert the pdf in jpeg with (for example) ghostscript.
>>>
>>> This works, but the problem is that I get an image the size of an A4.
>>> This is mostly whitespace. Is it not possible to only get the used
>>> part?
>> Maybe wrap your flowcharts-code in \startTEXpage ... \stopTEXpage, ie
>> something like this
>> \starttext
>> \startTEXpage
>> Put your flowcharts-code here...
>> \stopTEXpage
>> \stoptext
>
> Works like a charm. Thanks.
>
> By the way instead of gs from ghostscript, you can also use convert
> from Image Magick.
or GraphicsMagick, but as far as I know they still depend to ghostscript.
An independent way is to convert the pdf with pdftoppm
and then convert again the ppm to png/jpeg.
--
luigi
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-21 6:21 Cecil Westerhof
2010-11-21 7:48 ` luigi scarso
2010-11-21 9:07 ` Cecil Westerhof
2010-11-21 9:12 ` luigi scarso
2010-11-21 9:38 ` Cecil Westerhof
2010-11-21 9:51 ` luigi scarso [this message]
2010-11-21 7:53 ` Vnpenguin
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