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Re: xfig depends on xpdf, why?

From: Andreas Kähäri <ak(at)freeshell.org>
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 09:31:25 EDT

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 03:12:58PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 01:49:39PM +0100, Andreas Kähäri wrote:

So xfig depends on xpdf for PDF support code.

>
> We're definitely not talking about xpdf as a visualization tool.

Ah, ok. So xfig uses xpdf to generate PDF? Maybe I am a bit confused, I can only see utilitites for converting *from* PDF files, or that operates on PDF file in that port.

> And, about using pdf as an output format, I don't know what worlds you live

Sure. I don't dispute that. I've never had any probelms with ps2pdf though, you just need to use the right type of fonts in the PS-file...

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Andreas Kähäri
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Received on Tue Jul 15 09:52:21 2003

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