Re: [help-texinfo] getting the vector version of an image into a PDF

[Rick Jones]

On 10/28/2011 04:34 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Rick,
>
>      get it to use the scalable version of the images I've created rather
>      than the bitmapped when creating the PDF.
>
> I guess I should change texinfo.tex to look for .pdf in preference to
> .png and .jpg when generating PDF output.  Right now there's no way to
> alter that behavior in texinfo.tex.  (You can specify an extension as an
> optional argument for makeinfo, but TeX doesn't look at that.)
>
> As a workaround, if you move your .png or .jpg aside, then run texi2pdf,
> it should find the .pdf.  Then move the bitmaps back for the makeinfo
> run (if you do that).

Sounds like I should create a proper script for generating the final 
files :)  That does seem to do the trick to get nice, non-fuzzy images 
in there :)

> BTW, as for the HTML, if you want to use your .svg's, add one more optional
> argument:
> @image{foo,,,,.svg}

Thanks for the suggestions - wrt the svg's, it would seem that when I 
add the svg extension I end-up with images that go beyond the browser 
window - I guess it is up to the browswer as to whether it will scale 
the svg to the window?

rick jones

> HTH,
> karl
>
> (I'll be offline the next few days (back Wednesday), so hope others can
> answer if problems persist.)