I have printed versions of the original pictures in the book. I'm not sure if scanning them would be useful though.
On Saturday, February 3, 2024 at 10:04:13 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > Hi Qian, > > No. I think there is no reason to convert .xpm for the book. > Any way to produce the final picture that is included in the book is fine. > As far as I know, .xpm might be needed for HyperDoc. > Otherwise, I would be super-happy, if we can generate the pictures for > the book without X. > > Let me know what you are doing. It would be possible to inject code that > while generating the .xmp, some other code generates .ps. > > Ralf > > On 2/3/24 15:32, Waldek Hebisch wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 03, 2024 at 10:09:11PM +0800, Qian Yun wrote: > >> Hi Ralf, > >> > >> I noticed that in the creation process of book.pdf, > >> you convert .xpm (bitmap) image to .ps format. > >> > >> But "draw" in FriCAS can create ".ps" (vector) image directly. > >> > >> I'm trying to use this better quality for the book. > >> > >> So I'm asking there's no particular reason to choose > >> bitmap image over vector image, right? > > > > There is a trouble: currently our 2D Postscript output is black and > > white only (no colors). So there is some extra work to do, > > either use Postscript only for 3D, or modify Postscript output > > so that it can handle colors also for 2D. > > > > BTW. There is long standing issue that our 3D Postscript output > > needs connection to X server. It would be good to make it work > > independently of X. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/3f002bf4-71b6-4176-ab0b-bf2a361b0bb4n%40googlegroups.com.
