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vector graphics help
worker201:
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---WTF is PS useful for anyhow?
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1. PostScript and Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) images can be directly generated through a bash script if you want, since PostScript is a real interpreted programming language, like JavaScript and Perl.
2. PS and EPS images can be sent directly to a compatible printer without any intermediary program - a simple redirect on the command line is all you need. The printer can do the rest.
Basically what you are doing is making a vector image using printer language. It's an extremely efficient, if somewhat dated practice, designed for the days when most people barely had a shell prompt and a printer. Adobe's adoption of PDF for modern page description reflects the more uptodate method of creating graphics with a visual editor and then using software to send them to the printer.
worker201:
By the way, I did find out that Inkscape does plan to be AI, PS, EPS, and PDF compatible eventually. But the project is moving really slowly.
piratePenguin:
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Scribus can import PS and EPS and can export PDF and EPS.
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Firefox can print to PS, as can Konq (which can also print to PDF) and probably everything else in KDE..... GNOME can print to PDF and PS. The GIMP (which does not use GNOME's printing program, to my understanding. It uses gimp-print) can print to PS. :o
solemnwarning:
--- Quote from: mobrien_12 ---The reason X.org is used is because the XF86 core team went completely insane. They pissed off all their developers, and stifled innovation, which lead to the fork in the first place.
The final straw was when they decided to change the licencing to the old BSD licencing format with the advertising clause. This licence is incompatible with the GPL.
Thus, if anyone shipped binary versions of GPL programs or libraries (such as QT for KDE) linked against the new version of XFree86, they would violate the
GPL. This pretty much leaves most distros (even BSD ones) DEAD in the water if they chose to use the latest version XFree86, although you could download and compile XFree86 yourself if you so desired.
Like I said... insane.
We had a big thread on this a couple years back.
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I'm running XFree86 :)
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: solemnwarning ---I'm running XFree86 :)
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Don't tell me Debian still uses it!?
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