Re: faq: which terminal for OpenOffice.org

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

> > In other words: the text, as it is right now, mostly fits OpenOffice.org.
> 
> png and bitmaps are fine; or vectorial formats, I've tried gnuplot + OO on
> Linux:
> - emf is OK, in colors
> - dxf lacks many features
> - wmf terminal is not available on gnuplot/Linux

My fault --- we don't actually have a wmf driver. The only way to get WMF
from gnuplot is as the clipboard content when running the MS Windows
version ("Copy to Clipboard" copies two versions of the plot: a bitmap, 
and a WMF, which is essentially just a dump of drawing operations to a 
data structure).

> Can someone try gnuplot with wmf and put it onto OO? 

I did.  OOo --- actually *any* wordprocessor on Windows worth bothering
with --- can paste the WMF from gnuplot nicely.

> What are differences to emf? 

It's not a file, and it can be used with wgnuplot only.

> Which has smaller size and more features => thus what we can recommend?

EMF has more features, but may not be supported on surviving 16-bit
Windows installations --- it's essentially the designated successor of WMF
for the NT family of Windows.

> Some (most?) word processors do not preview the actual image in the eps
> file, and you have to add the preview image yourself. You can use the GSView
> viewer for this (available for OS/2, Windows and X11), or ??? some Unix ps
> tool???. 

That "Unix ps tool" exists on all installations that have ghostscript, and
it's called ps2epsi.  But MS Word and others seem not to be able to
understand the preview image it embeds :-(

> Into some office applications, like OpenOffice.org, or into applications in
> the Windows world, you can insert vectorial images produces by the emf or
> wmf terminal type.

Remove wmf as a "terminal type" here.

> With \TeX, it depends on what you use to print your dvi files...

> With \TeX processed by pdftex or pdflatex, you can use png and pdf terminal
> types.

JPG should probably work, too.  An even better choice with pdflatex could
be the epslatex terminal, after converting the eps part to PDF externally
(the TeX part can remain unchanged).

> ???? Metapost ??? Metafont ???

Mention them and refer to their terminal driver docs.  No point repeating
it all here.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
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