From: Andreas Kähäri (akfreeshell.org)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 08:07:15 CDT

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On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 02:58:05PM +0200, Hannah Schroeter wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 01:49:39PM +0100, Andreas Kähäri wrote:
> >[...]
>
> >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?
>
> fig2dev uses some external programs for some output formats
> (see the description of the -L option in fig2dev(1)).

That's fine, no worries. But having the package depend on xpdf
is like having ports that generate HTML output depend on opera
or mozilla.

>
> >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...
>
> I've used fig2dev with pdf output when preparing slides with
> pdflatex, as well as when I formatted my diploma thesis using
> pdflatex (the printing shop preferred pdf over ps).

... so it was pdflatex, rather than xfig, that depended on a PDF
viewer.

Alright, I'll leave it at that. I just think it's a somewhat
strange dependency...

Cheers,
Andreas

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Andreas Kähäri
Essex, England

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