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Re: [Groff] Graphics


From: Egil Kvaleberg
Subject: Re: [Groff] Graphics
Date: 15 Nov 2002 09:58:32 +0100

On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 03:33, Daniel Senderowicz wrote:

> pcxtoppm <yourfilename.here> | ppmtopgm | pgmtopbm | pbmtoplot | \
> plot2dev -d gremlin -m 1 > <yourgremlinfile.here>
> 
> The colors or shades of gray in your original bmp or pcx files will
> be approximated by discrete lines in your plot file by pbmplus, so
> they won't look very good. 

Converting grays to e.g. lines, is called rendering, and with all due
respect that should be done at the device interface level, NOT as a
preprocessor. I think that is the wrong concept.

If the Postscript-only is all right, then I think .PSPIC is the way to
go.

Egil
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