[Cryptech Tech] Tech Digest, Vol 24, Issue 3

[Leif Johansson]

On 2015-11-09 09:08, Rob Austein wrote:
> Folks, Peter was asking about graphics, Markdown is useless there.
> 

Yeah true

> Peter, glad to meet somebody else who appears to share my preference
> for vector graphics formats :)
> 
> potrace is OK if you strongly prefer to draw by hand, can do pretty
> pictures when drawing by hand (I can't), and are OK with the result
> being black-and-white (you said bitmap, so I suspect you understand
> what you're proposing there).  My only real concern with potrace (an
> awesome program which I've used occasionally, although never for any
> terribly serious purpose) is that the graphics it generates are rather
> large, because it's trying to reverse engineer curves from pixels
> rather than starting out with the right curves.
> 
> If it were me, I'd probably use Inkscape or Graphviz, preferably the
> latter.  I'm a programmer, so I like Graphviz, because it lets me
> write programs to draw my pictures rather than trying to draw them
> myself.  When I absolutely must draw them myself, Inkscape is about as
> good as it gets (particularly if I can bribe my artist daughter into
> driving it for me).
> 
> But before you put a lot of effort into anything in this space, I'd
> strongly suggest that you coordinate with Heather, our doc guru.
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