| author | Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu> |
| Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:46:55 -0700 | |
| changeset 3332 | da67e8efa347 |
| parent 3090 | doc/tutorial/figures/README@bb5c9e8041cd |
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Please write image files in a vector graphics format, when possible, and |
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generate the .png and .pdf versions on the fly (see ../Makefile). |
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Currently supported tools are dia and tgif. xfig could be added similarly |
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if someone wants to add it. The main requirement for adding another format |
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is that the tool to edit it is freely available and that a cron script can |
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autogenerate the pdf and png from the figure source. |
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Store the .dia, or .obj versions in mercurial, but not the .png or .pdfs. |
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If the figure is not available in a vector graphics format, store both |
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a .png and a .pdf version in this directory. |
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If you add a source (.dia, .obj) file here, remember to add it to |
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the list of figure sources in the Makefile in the directory above |
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Note: tgif can convert from .obj to .pdf, but the pdf that results takes |
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up a whole page. Instead, we convert to an intermediate .eps step, and |
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then run epstopdf. |