Re: export dialog (was: gEDA-dev: gEDA/gaf release plans)

[Wojciech Kazubski]

> 
> > On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 20:51 +0200, Carlos Nieves Ă“nega wrote:
> > 
> > > If you want to support more types, I'd suggest to add them to gdk-pixbuf
> > > and gschem will support it automatically.
> > 
> > The original suggestion was for a non scaled, non-rotated eps output, so
> > thats not compatible with gdk-pixbuf (bitmap based).
> > 
> 
> I don't really have a strong opinion of if EPS output goes into the
> export or print dialog box (I could argue for either one), however, it
> would be nice if any new EPS code reused the existing PS generating code.

This requires slight modification of the first line of EPS flie to read something like %!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0 and adding some code to calculate picture size from schematic size. The rest of printing code should remain unchanged.

> Also, is adding EPS support really worth it considering ps2epsi works
> today (to convert gschem ps files to eps)?

This works too, but requires some eztra work with cropping/resizing images. 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Ales
> 
Wojciech Kazubski