Re: [Groff] Using pic/groff/gs to produce gif/jpeg

[David Griffiths]

Hmmm, what I didn't notice was that this time the _bottom_ of the image 
wasn't getting cropped! So I gave up on pic2graph and just used this:

groff -p -P-pletter file.pic | convert -trim -density 90 - file.jpg

Cheers,

Dave

David Griffiths wrote:

> Hi, yes, that seems to work well (once I'd downloaded the groff-1.19.1 
> version of pic2graph, the one that comes with cygwin is buggy). Just one 
> thing: it (ie convert) antialiases everything including the solid lines. 
> If I turn off antialiasing it turns it off for the text too. Any 
> suggestions? Not that bothered as it actually looks quite good with 
> antialiased lines.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
>
> Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
> > > Hi, I'm new to pic/groff and I've been having some problems
> > > producing either gif or jpeg images using them.  The basic problem
> > > seems to be that pic/groff/postscript all have the concept of a page
> > > that they are drawing on whereas I want the resulting image to have
> > > all the whitespace cropped from the margins.  This is to go in a web
> > > page so the idea of a page doesn't make sense.
> >
> >
> >
> > If you just want to convert a PIC image you might also try the
> > pic2graph script which comes with groff, which always crops the image.
> > Using the `-density' comomand line option you can control the
> > resolution of the final image.
> >
> >
> >     Werner
>
>
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