$ convert /Users/megrimm/ID242.pdf /tmp/ID242.png
yes this works fine.
also, as a side note, SVG does load but $fink install imagemagick-svg is needed first
vector graphic (pdf) is converted to a rasterized image (imagemagick) which will then be displayed in a vector oriented scene (Gem) only to be rasterized for the final output (screen).
to clarify this is:
vector->rasterized->vector->rasterized
thats quite the process!
a better approach would be to have vector graphics be imported as vector graphics (ala "model")
agreed. what would this look like? a separate plugin i assume? like modelSVG or modelPDF?
m
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 3:04 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig@iem.at wrote:
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On 2012-03-26 19:30, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
no, pix_image with imageMAGICK can load pdfs (though it takes a while to render them)
and just for clarification: "render" here means the rasterization process if ImageMagick that converts a vector graphic into a rasterized image. the raster-image is then displayed (aka "rendered", but that was not the meaing i intended) using Gem, which should be fast enough.
this also shows some obvious disadvantage of the current method: a vector graphic (pdf) is converted to a rasterized image (imagemagick) which will then be displayed in a vector oriented scene (Gem) only to be rasterized for the final output (screen). a better approach would be to have vector graphics be imported as vector graphics (ala "model")
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