output

[Olly Betts]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 11:31:01AM -0000, graham.mullan wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way of directly outputting a Survex plot as a bitmap (or
> anything else, preferably a tiff) so that it can be modified on-screen for
> publication, rather than having to use the low-tech option of print and scan?

It's a feature I'm planning for the future (after 1.0).

In the short term, the options I'm aware of are:

* use something to convert the output from printps/dm/pcl or cadgen (DXF
  output) to a bitmap.  On unix ghostview can render postscript to a bitmap
  - you may be able to get ghostview for MS Windows.  You might find
  something to render DXF on http://freegis.org/

* printxbm - this is a test printer driver I use for debugging the bitmap
  printer drivers without using lots of paper.  It produces a bitmap in XBM
  format (because it's a very simple format to implement) so you'd need
  tools to read that.  On Unix the Gimp can.  Not sure about tools for MS
  Windows.  It's not a polished tool, and XBM files aren't compact (one byte
  per pixel), but it may be useful.  If you want to try it, let me know what
  platform and I'll build a copy for you.

Cheers,
Olly