Hi Fons, et al,
On Wed, 07 Nov 2001 18:34:32 +0100
Fons Rademakers <Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch> wrote
concerning "Re: [ROOT] Picture/Pixmap/Bitmap from data":
> We are working on an interface to an image processing library.
Sounds like a brilliant idea. Are you rellying on third-party
software like ImageMagick or similar? (with obvious references to the
not-so-old GUI discussion on this list.)
> ... to print the images in the pads in PS or to save them to png,
> tiff, xpm, gif, etc.
What about saving in Metapost, LaTeX, Fig, ladida formats? I think
the Fig thing would be very intresting, since you'll be able to open
the file in XFig (my drawing tool of choice) and do various fun
stuff. Metapost is intresting since it produces high-quality output -
much more so then most other programs can do, and then it integrates
well with TeX. (How many articles are written in Word these days - I
think LaTeX is still the typesetting system of choice for most
people - no wonder).
Ok, so it may be a bit more tricky, and probably not something you can
get 3rd-party libraries for easily, but I thought it worth a mention.
Yours,
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