ouch: the beginning of the end

[Richmond Mathewson]

On 3/3/17 7:59 pm, Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Heather Laine via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> Its likely I'm being dense here... but does the PDF viewer not meet your
>> needs?
>>
> No; it really isn't even in the same range.
>
> What I absolutely need is to be able to use an eps (or an arbitrarily sized
> png) as an inserted image in the same way as a jpg, gif, or png.

GIMP can be used to do all of this.

Richmond.

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> There might be one on a page, or there might be a few, and they would
> display for the user on a regular card, with regular functionality of the
> other objects on my card.
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> Then, when done, the page region of that card prints out as a pdf, the eps
> and everything on top of it (as a practical matter, all are fields) print
> out to my output pdf just like any other card.
>
> The output part is easy.  While my Forth and PostScript are to rusty to
> remember the right verbs, it would be something like:
>
> put "begin image" & cr & file:"the_eps_to_include.eps" & cr & "end image" &
> cr after thePDFoutputSoFar
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> As for on screen display, an eps should be far simpler than the containers
> for video and so forth.
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