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EPS -> PNG with anti-aliasing
- To: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: EPS -> PNG with anti-aliasing
- From: Nik Clayton <nik at freebsd dot org>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 17:18:48 +0100
- Organization: FreeBSD Project <URL:http://www.freebsd.org/>
Folks,
I thought some of you might be interested in this.
If you're using DocBook to create documentation in a variety of formats,
*and* you're using images, and one of your 'source' image formats is EPS
then you may well have been using "eps2png", from
http://www.squirrel.nl/people/jvromans/sw_eps2png.html
The problem with eps2png is a limitation in Ghostscript -- it doesn't
anti-alias the PNG images.
To fix this, one of the FreeBSD contributors has written "peps", which
can be used to convert EPS to PNG (and other formats) with
anti-aliasing.
peps can be downloaded[1] from
http://www.whizkidtech.net/peps/
which also has some illustrations of the problem, and how peps solves
it.
N
[1] If you're using FreeBSD then it's in the ports tree already.
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