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> > Been working with xcircuit. It saves in PS but can |
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> be |
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> > made into a jpeg which looked just as sharp as the |
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> > original. |
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> If you zoom into that jpeg fat enough you will see |
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> pixillation. I |
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> don't think this will be the case with the |
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> postscript file, which is |
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> indeed a vector (or vectorish?) format. |
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> |
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> You're better off converting the PS file to PDF - |
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> PDF is fairly |
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> postscript-based, so this is an easy conversion, and |
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> PDF supports |
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> vector-based drawings (as well as bitmaps). |
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> |
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> If you zoom in on a curve on the PDF using Acrobat |
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> (or whatever) you |
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> should find that you never see pixillation at all - |
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> this is the joy |
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> of vectors. Admittedly this is a fairly moot point |
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> with a small |
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> schematic, but I would imagine it would be |
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> considered far more |
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> elegant for much larger ones or (particularly) for |
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> PCB layouts. |
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xcircuit should suffice for my needs. You can right |
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click the files in konqueror and save them to jpegs, |
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pngs etc. No one's going to bother zooming in on any |
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of them. |
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mw |
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