Re: xfig depends on xpdf, why?

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 02:31:38PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 01:15:18PM +0100, Andreas Kähäri wrote:

Well, so does LaTeX, but I don't see it depend on acroread or gv or xpdf... Hmmm... and so does quite a few programs in the ghostscript-7.05p1 port as well.

Since PDF is one of the most useful document formats these days, could you not assume that the users have a PDF reader installed already, or that they will install one if they needs to view the PDF results?

Besides, I'm not sure xfig is used for generating PDF output that often. I'm fairly certain it's more often used for generating EPS files for inclusion in LaTeX documents, or JPEG for incusion on web pages etc...

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Andreas Kähäri
Essex, England