Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([62.225.9.49]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Mon, 23 Sep 2002 01:02:33 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g8MN2WVP000780 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 01:02:32 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g8MMwfL0017657; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 00:58:41 +0200 (MET DST) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C2628C.2249CA80" Received: from listserv (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.2/8.12.2/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id g8MM06XI016915; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 00:56:35 +0200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 4781 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 00:56:34 +0200 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.2/8.12.2/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id g8MMuYWM017219 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 00:56:34 +0200 Received: from webmail.tiscali.de ([62.27.55.1]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g8MMwSL0017597 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 00:58:28 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from linux.local (62.246.96.27) by webmail.tiscali.de (6.0.045) id 3D30181F0104F312 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 00:45:34 +0200 Received: (from one@localhost) by linux.local (8.11.3/8.11.3/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) id g8MN5bk05781 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 01:05:37 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20020922210951.A22378@lucien.kn-bremen.de> References: <009101c262ab$a4f75f00$c69d70d5@gotia> <20020922210951.A22378@lucien.kn-bremen.de> Return-Path: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Sep 2002 23:02:34.0006 (UTC) FILETIME=[22E34B60:01C2628C] X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.11 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: proposal [graphics] Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 00:05:37 +0100 Message-ID: A<20020922230537.GA5778@linux> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Re: proposal [graphics] Thread-Index: AcJijCMdsTxPF/BLTI2jnEvMNUuzhg== From: "Heiko Oberdiek" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4370 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C2628C.2249CA80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 09:09:51PM +0200, Martin Schroeder wrote: > OTOH as long as on-the-fly > conversion to a supported format is needed, I don't see any sense > in bloating the drivers by adding support for another format. * Instead of one source image file (eg. GIF), you will have a lot of = files after the conversion (PNG for pdfTeX, EPS for dvips, ...). * You update the source image file, but the other formats already exist in an earlier version ... So you have to setup and maintain a Makefile or similar thing. Yours sincerely Heiko ------_=_NextPart_001_01C2628C.2249CA80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: proposal [graphics]

On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 09:09:51PM +0200, Martin = Schroeder wrote:

> OTOH as long as on-the-fly
> conversion to a supported format is needed, I = don't see any sense
> in bloating the drivers by adding support for = another format.

* Instead of one source image file (eg. GIF), you will = have a lot of files
  after the conversion (PNG for pdfTeX, EPS for = dvips, ...).
* You update the source image file, but the other = formats already
  exist in an earlier version ...
  So you have to setup and maintain a Makefile = or similar thing.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek@uni-freiburg.de>

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