From: luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \externalfigure and file size
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:46:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG5iGsDBpoH2YBeM3BeaH1FzzusW7kWQiBuC-mh9HgZxi7pU5A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1327105621.28887.0.camel@kip-laptop>
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On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 1:27 AM, Kip Warner <kip@thevertigo.com> wrote:
>
> Right, but since the average end user probably won't know that, doesn't
> that still suggest Inkscape be listed as a dependency?
>
> hm, no.
Suppose this situation: me and you agree on a context beta version and a
pdf reader and you send me your tex file with
1) a png/jpeg image or a pdf file as externalfigure. Then my pdf and your
pdf must be the same, and on average the reader will show the same result.
Otherwise probably is a bug.
2) a swf. Then my pdf and your pdf must be the same, but probably the
reader will not show the same result -- basically only acroread is able to
show swf inside a pdf, and it depends to the OS and version
3) a svg image. PDF spec. doesn't support SVG, so we must also agree on the
same program to convert the svg into a bitmap or vector image, and this is
a problem: as you have seen, the conversion require a bit of experience.
After all, it's not strange if inkscape 0.40 and 0.48 display the same svg
in different way --- and the same for the pdfs.
Actually, only an expert user can use inkscape to automatically convert an
svg to pdf/png without (appreciable) errors, and this kind of user is also
able to install the correct version of inkscape (which is much easier to
install under windows then linux,btw). So, if you are creating a svg by
tourself, it's better to check that the pdf and png are the same if you
want to be sure that your image will be printed/display correctly --- there
aren't so many programs that completely support the svg standard.
ConTeXt then helps this kind of expert user because they are able "a
priori" to understand if a svg image is problematic or not .
--
luigi
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-19 0:25 Kip Warner
2012-01-19 7:56 ` Mojca Miklavec
2012-01-19 23:51 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-19 8:23 ` luigi scarso
2012-01-19 23:52 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-20 0:51 ` Marco
2012-01-20 1:02 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-20 9:08 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-20 23:05 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-21 0:07 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-21 0:12 ` luigi scarso
2012-01-21 0:15 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-24 23:28 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-21 0:21 ` Marco
[not found] ` <20120121012234.1553b814@homerow>
2012-01-21 0:27 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-21 0:40 ` Marco
2012-01-21 0:55 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-21 13:32 ` Marco
2012-01-24 0:33 ` Kip Warner
[not found] ` <20120121014245.794d515b@homerow>
2012-01-21 0:45 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-21 0:54 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-21 3:31 ` Wagner Macedo
2012-01-21 9:40 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-24 0:44 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-24 0:17 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-24 11:13 ` Marco
[not found] ` <20120124121433.57a167f4@homerow>
2012-01-24 23:20 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-21 1:46 ` luigi scarso [this message]
2012-01-20 23:48 ` Wagner Macedo
2012-01-19 10:58 ` Peter Rolf
2012-01-20 0:01 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-20 0:07 ` Pontus Lurcock
2012-01-20 0:23 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-20 0:45 ` Mojca Miklavec
2012-01-20 0:50 ` Pontus Lurcock
2012-01-20 1:26 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-20 0:13 ` Wagner Macedo
2012-01-20 0:23 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-20 0:43 ` Pontus Lurcock
[not found] ` <CAKGY2Pk_pXNNcks+EaEg0fLYh2ENtb3Cas13duoxihr654vQnQ@mail.gmail.com>
2012-01-20 0:51 ` Kip Warner
[not found] ` <CAKGY2Pk8TC8cJUEDvy5HhaS0NvbLmFcYvS3d6Es7vzUpa63ADg@mail.gmail.com>
2012-01-20 1:01 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-20 1:03 ` Mojca Miklavec
2012-01-20 1:30 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-20 8:55 ` luigi scarso
2012-01-20 23:04 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-20 23:36 ` luigi scarso
2012-01-20 0:14 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-01-20 1:24 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-20 0:21 ` Marco
2012-01-20 1:21 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-20 10:18 ` Marco
2012-01-20 10:26 ` Hans Hagen
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