26 Apr
2014
26 Apr
'14
10:53 p.m.
On 27 April 2014 01:23, Dennis Boone <drb at msu.edu> wrote:
Gnuplot can drive it, I think. And it's
certainlly capable of drawing
graphs that aren't "simple".
By "simple" graphs, I didn't really mean to imply that gnuplot can
only make relatively simple graphs; I just meant that I was looking to
create graphics that were more image like, and less
output-from-gnuplot.
Ghostscript seems to be able to turn postscript into
some dialect of Tek
lingo. I played with this in xterm at one point.
I really would like to know how that works. By any chance do you
remember whatever magic was used to convince Ghostscript to munch on
the postscript file and turn it into Tek format?
There are some tracers that convert bitmap images into
vector ones,
which might be fun. potrace and autotrace can both put out postscript,
for example. Serial data rate will make anything large a waiting
game...
De
I haven't looked at autotrace, but from what I recall potrace can only
take input in the form of BMP, PGM, PBM, and PNM. (So using it would
probably require converting your images from from whatever format into
one of those four.) I also recall that the plotutils package can
convert certain input formats into Tek format (and Tek to other
formats too); but do any of the plotutils applications let you put in
a -- say -- SVG image and get some Tek format in the output?
Cheers,
Christian
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