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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: using kivio drawings in other applications
From:       Peter Simonsson <psn () linux ! se>
Date:       2003-04-22 22:45:53
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On Tuesday 22 April 2003 22.13, Marc Heyvaert wrote:
> Hello! I have a problem in Kivio that may be relevant to other Koffice
> applications. I am currently working on a paper and have decided to do it
> in Latex (with support of Lyx). Sorry, but I tried in Kword and it didn't
> have enough desired features to make it possible (yet). This paper will
> have a number of diagrams. When I make these in Kivio (not the greatest of
> programs, but more or less ok) I have a reasonable result, that prints
> relatively well. When I export (printing to file in either .ps or .pdf
> format) this drawing to be incorporated in my Latex document, the output is
> very bad. With the .pdf option I can fiddle with some settings and
> increasing the dpi is increasing the quality but... When I make the diagram
> in dia and export this to a .ps format the overall result in my Latex
> document is much better. The overall appearance is sharper, whereas the
> output from kivio is very coarse. Why is this? And why can't I get a crisp
> output as in programs running in windows (aar! gh!! the terrible word :-)  
> ) Regards Marc
>
Printing in general needs some work in kivio, but as I don't have a printer 
it's a bit hard for me to work in that area...

-- 
LLaP
Peter Simonsson

Kivio (KOffice Flowcharting Application) - http://www.koffice.org/
Kexi - http://www.koffice.org/kexi/
KLCC (KDE LineControl Client) - http://linecontrol.sourceforge.net/

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