[cairo] Vector output

[Mathieu Lacage]

On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 11:47 +0000, Kieran McCusker wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm new to the list so please bear with me.
> 
> I have been using cairo on Linux to generate business graphs which are 
> then put into web pages or imported into documents.  These look fine in 
> the browser as pngs but to get acceptable quality for the documents I 
> need to scale them pretty dramatically which really bulks up the 
> documents and still gives lower quality than I had before when using 
> windows emfs (although the graphs are more sophisticated).
> 
> None of the vector formats are suitable for importing into documents 
> (either Oo or MS Word).  Does anyone have any ideas?

xfig can export to emf (and you can use it to convert on the
command-line) so, if you can generate .fig (using pstoedit to generate
fig from eps, ps or pdf), you should be fine.

pstoedit can also generate emf directly although I have never used it to
do this.

Mathieu
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