On 2003-11-22 08:23:27 +0000 Syd Hancock syd@toufol.com wrote:
I have been able to extract these but for the benefit of novices like myself would someone please advise on the simplest way to view, print and modify them.
View: load it in gv, or kghostview, or gnome-gv. GSPdf seems to need them decompressing, which surprised me. I'll fix that when I get chance.
Print: probably can print it from the above tools, or from the command line (if an lpr-type printer program is around) use: zcat file.ps.gz | lpr
Modify: well, they're generated by a php script, so I can update the generated ones on the server on request. I will also upload the LaTeX+PS source for the cards Real Soon Now. You can probably run the downloaded file through ps2edit and open it with some vector editors too. Gimp should load it straight away, but that's only a bitmap editor, so won't look as nice if saved. The fonts used are the Nimbus collection, which I think are either supplied with ghostscript or downloaded from gimp.org.
Does gzip always remove the source archive when extracting?
I think so, but you don't always need to do this.
If not then perhaps there is a case for making these files available in something like an OpenOffice.org writer format which is increasingly-widely available - no idea if it is an open or proprietary format though.
I still don't have OO.org installed here yet and I wouldn't know how to set labels and vector art in it, while I know LaTeX's graphicx and label packages quite well, so it was a fairly quick job. I'll probably put it on the laptop soon. Will someone have a recent CD of OO.org at Syleham for copying? I'm still waiting for the new hard disks to arrive here.