Fedora docs processing (Was: [fedora-java] batik [Fwd: Re: com.sun.image.*])

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 10:35 -0500, Tommy Reynolds wrote:
> Uttered Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com>, spake thus:
> 
> > AFAIK, we are using PNG and EPS only for our graphics.  I don't know of
> > any reason we cannot strip out JPEG handling.
> > 
> > Fedora doc folk, what think ye?
> 
> Well, we are not really using even EPS at the moment since we are not
> actually producing any PDF's to speak of.  And at that, EPS is needed
> only because the passivetex backend doesn't understand anything else.
> 
> However, I think limiting the supported graphics to, in order of
> <mediaobject> listing, is: SVG, EPS, and PNG.  I do all my graphics
> work in SVG and then render appropriately.  Regardless of how it
> gets produced, we can render a PNG into whatever is necessary using
> ImageMajick or netpbm.  Both these tools are part of the Fedora
> distribution and are thus fully blessed already.  Preliminary SVG
> support is provided by the librsvg2 RPM, also blessed by the distro.
> 
> Sorry, JPG, it was nice while it lasted, but now it's over.  Anytime
> we see jaggies, we'll think of you...

Hear, hear.

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