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On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:19:58 -0000, chewie54 <dfabrizio51@gmail.com>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>Ok,  thanks.  I actually have the application partially done using
>Java/Swing but I'm not sure if I can save to the drawings done with
>Java2D to SVG, PDF, and PS,  and make high resolution images (PNG,
>GIF, JPG),
>and also produce WYSIWYG printer outputs?

things to check out:
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/gifencoder.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jpgencoder.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/printing.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jai.html

to get PostScript I think your best bet would be to use a PostScript
printer driver and write to a file.  The PS is going to be pretty ugly
compared with what you would generate directly.

SVG I don't know about.  What you might try there is  converting
captured printer metafile output if you can't find a more direct
solution.

The approach I would use is to create some high level drawing tools
that are basically just wrappers for some subset of the Sun drawing
tools, and do my drawing with them.  Then I could slip in
implementations that emit clean SVG and PS, using a custom PS prelude
to keep the code terse and readable.  I prefer that approach  since it
is 100% under my control, and the code won't stop working if something
inside Java or metafiles changes.

The only really tricky part then is converting images to PS image
format and compressing them. You might dig around in
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/ps.html
or http://mindprod.com/jgloss/pdf.html
for tools to handle that.
-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
The Java Glossary
http://mindprod.com

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