Re: gmeta ---> .png

From: Kate Hedstrom (kate@XXXXXX)
Date: Tue Oct 10 2000 - 09:13:59 MDT

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    > > How about trying this direct from gmeta to a .png (Portable
    > >Network Graphics) plot format image file? Anyone know of such a
    > >graphcap file which can let ctrans do this?. (Or how about .gif
    > >(Graphics Image File), .jpg (JPEG Image File), .bmp (Windows
    > >bitmap image file), or .pcx (ZSoft IBM PC Paintbrush file)?)

    One more way to get .gif or .png images from metafiles is to
    use ctrans to create postscript, then load that into the Gimp
    (Gnu image manipulation program). Using the Gimp, you can control
    the amount of anti-aliasing and also the conversion to an
    indexed color palette. I like the results with moderate
    anti-aliasing - some of the other packages mentioned lead to
    terrible aliasing (staircase jaggies on sloping lines).

    The Gimp lets you do anything at all to your bitmapped images,
    but the learning curve is fierce.

    Kate

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    Kate Hedström               Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences
    kate@imcs.rutgers.edu       Rutgers University
    



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