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Re: [Troll] Level Web Pages



At 09:11 PM 5/22/00 -0400, Dennis Payne wrote:
[SNIP: Suggestion--use pdfs.]

>PDFs have several problems.  They tend to be larger

Not sure that will truly be the case here; if you have only an image 
contained in the pdf, it will probably be only slightly bigger than the 
image itself (I'm guessing here).

>and don't have incremental viewing while downloading.
>Not to mention I don't know what scripting options are
>available for quark.  Plus it would require me to use
>windows.

You can view them with ghostview, under either platform.  There are also 
other pdf viewers, I think.  I can get you more info, if you'd like.

>The html solution allows me to have a linux script that
>I run after changing the levels and it would automatically
>generate the web pages.

You might be able to use a xv to go jpg -> ps and then use ghostview 
(maybe????) -> pdf.  Does ghostview allow you to save to pdf now?

Kenn

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Kenneth W. Flynn              | Graduate Fellow
flynnk@astro.umd.edu          | Department of Astronomy
www.astro.umd.edu/~flynnk     | University of Maryland
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