On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 12:00:32AM -0700, Jeffery von Ronne wrote: > Does anyone know of a good way to get nice black & white EPS from > Gnumeric charts? I've got some charts in Gnumeric that I want to > include in PhD dissertation (which is written latex), but I'm having > trouble getting something decent out of Gnumeric. > > I tried the "Save as" function, which allows PNGs, JPEGs, and SVGs. > PNGs and JPEGs are, of course, inadequate because they're raster > format and need to be made huge in order to have sufficient quality. > But the SVG export is also inadequate because it doesn't support the > patterns on my bars in my barchart, and since my dissertation needs to > be black and white I need the patterns in order to distinguish the > different items in the legend. > > The other thing I tried was to do a "print to file" and then convert > that to EPS, but the file resulting file is huge and doesn't look very > nice in "gv." > > Is it possible to get a nice EPS out of a Gnumeric chart? > (I'm using Gnumeric 1.5.2; I was using 1.4.3, but I upgraded > to see if that would help, but it didn't seem to.)
There is code there to print to a ps file (as evidenced by the fact that we can print charts in sheets) but we have not gotten around to hooking it up to the save-as mechanism. It shouldn't be hard. Please make an enhancement request in bugzilla. _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
