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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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