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Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents

From Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents
Date 2016-11-19 22:10 +0100
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On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
<mchehab@s-opensource.com> wrote:
>
> I did some research on Friday trying to identify where those images
> came. It turns that, for the oldest images (before I took the media
> maintainership), PDF were actually their "source", as far as I could track,
> in the sense that the *.gif images were produced from the PDF.
>
> The images seem to be generated using some LaTeX tool. Their original
> format were probably EPS.

The original format was almost certainly xfig.

Converting fig files to eps and pdf to then encapsulate them into
LaTeX was a very common way to do documentation with simple figures.
Iirc, xfig natively supported "export as eps".

                Linus

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Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-11-16 17:10 +0100
  Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> - 2016-11-16 21:30 +0100
    Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-11-17 12:10 +0100
      Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> - 2016-11-17 12:30 +0100
        Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> - 2016-11-17 18:10 +0100
      Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> - 2016-11-17 18:10 +0100
      Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-11-17 18:10 +0100
      Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2016-11-17 18:10 +0100
      Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> - 2016-11-17 18:20 +0100
        Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> - 2016-11-17 18:30 +0100
      Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2016-11-17 18:30 +0100
      Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-11-17 19:10 +0100
        Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> - 2016-11-18 10:20 +0100
          Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> - 2016-11-18 11:30 +0100
        Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2016-11-19 18:20 +0100
          Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> - 2016-11-19 18:40 +0100
          Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com> - 2016-11-19 19:00 +0100
          Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> - 2016-11-19 19:00 +0100
            Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-11-19 19:50 +0100
              Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents "David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org> - 2016-11-20 00:30 +0100
                Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-11-20 15:30 +0100
          Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-11-19 22:00 +0100
            Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-11-19 22:10 +0100
          Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> - 2016-11-21 11:40 +0100
            Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-11-21 15:10 +0100
              Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> - 2016-11-21 16:50 +0100
              Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> - 2016-11-21 16:50 +0100
                Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-11-21 20:50 +0100
              Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2016-11-21 16:50 +0100

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