From: Markus M. <me...@me...> - 2004-05-04 14:38:16
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Joerg, thanks for the quick reply. My answers below. Am Die, den 04.05.2004 schrieb Joerg Lehmann um 16:09: > > 1. Am I correct that I can output poth .EPS and standard > > printer-friendly .PS postscript files with PyX? > > Yes. Thanks, that sounds good. > > 2. Is there currently any support (planned) for raster images in PyX? > > No, there is no support for raster images and we also do not intend to > implement this feature. Just use Ghostscript to generate bitmap files > from the PostScript produced by PyX. No, sorry, seems like I misformulated my question. I do _not_ want to create bitmaps from the postscript code which is created by PyX (that would be possible with e.g. Ghostscript as you described.) In contrast I'd like to know if I can insert raster images into the output. E.g, I'd like to draw a diagram with PyX and next to the diagram print a .PNG image (say, a photograph). This could be implemented by a drawing primitive (like Window's "BitBlt()" or "DrawImage()"), for example. > What do you mean with 'send postscript commands in "raw" mode through > PyX"? Do you think of passing the PostScript output of PyX directly > to Ghostscript? My intention was that, if PyX is not supporting to insert raster images into the output, I could still insert the raw postscript code for printing the raster image into the output PyX produces. Of course, a generic solution would be much preferred. Markus |