Andreas,
I wish to have a friendly disagreement about your conclusions.
I don't think of JPEG or GIF as formats suitable for primary
capture of scientific graphics, and I don't see anything wrong with
relying on third-party tools for conversions to these formats. The
third-party tools (e.g., ImageMagic - see
http://www.wizards.dupont.com/magick/) are free and I think you will
find the need for them anyway, for other applications.
As an aside, with Ghostscript (free) and Mayura Draw (shareware from
www.mayura.com) you can edit postscript files. Ghostscript can
convert them to to Adobe Illustrator format and Mayura Draw can edit
these and export them back to postscript (or gif, tif, bmp, pdf), at
least on Windows/NT.
Sincerely,
Frank Harrell
Andreas Krause writes:
>
> Summarizing what I received as answers, about ten people would very much like
> GIF and JPEG device drivers, but there was no reaction as to why they are not
> there.
>
> I received several proposals on different types of conversion from
> PostScript, but that's not the point. This solution relies on third party
> tools, creates an overhead by going from PS to JPEG or GIF and maybe
> something else in between, and it potentially introduces new problems.
> It's just striking that the drivers differ so much between S-Plus for Windows
> and Unix.
>
> Andreas Krause wrote:
> >
> > Is there an obvious reason why S-Plus for Unix does not have GIF and JPEG
> > output capabilities? I know about charges for using the GIF format,
> > however,
> > S-Plus for Windows has these capabilities.
> > Just wondering.
> >
> > andreas krause
> >
>
>
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