From: Andreas Kähäri (akfreeshell.org)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 07:49:39 CDT

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On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 02:31:38PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 01:15:18PM +0100, Andreas Kähäri wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just built graphics/xfig (OpenBSD-current/i386) and found that
> > it depends on textproc/xpdf. Is there a thought behind this?
> > Sure, it comes with two PDF documents, but I'd rather read them
> > with the PDF viewer I already have installed. teTeX_texmf comes
> > with more documentation in PDF format without depending on a PDF
> > reader (good thing)...
> >
> > Just wondering.
>
> Xfig can export to pdf, which is one of the most useful formats these
> days.

Well, so does LaTeX, but I don't see it depend on acroread or
gv or xpdf... Hmmm... and so does quite a few programs in the
ghostscript-7.05p1 port as well.

Since PDF is one of the most useful document formats these days,
could you not assume that the users have a PDF reader installed
already, or that they will install one if they needs to view the
PDF results?

Besides, I'm not sure xfig is used for generating PDF output
that often. I'm fairly certain it's more often used for
generating EPS files for inclusion in LaTeX documents, or JPEG
for incusion on web pages etc...

--
Andreas Kähäri
Essex, England

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