[racket] Drawing PostScript file on slideshow

I don't know a better way than that, but in princple you could port
the postscript to Racket, as they use the same underlying graphics
model (paths, etc).

Robby

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Yoshimoto Haruhiro <accalyne at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for quick response.
> The solution worked. It was sufficient for me.
> I would convert from EPS to PDF, and use the library.
>
> 2012/7/4 Michael Wilber <mwilber at uccs.edu>:
>> I don't know of any ways to import vector graphics in the standard
>> library. Maybe an official developer can give pointers.
>>
>> There's a "pdf-render" package on planet. It's just FFI bindings to
>> libpoppler. It only works on linux though, and who knows how stable it
>> is.
>>
>> #lang racket
>> (require slideshow/pict
>>          (planet gcr/pdf-render))
>> (show-pict (page->pict "oopsla04-gff.pdf"))
>>
>> http://planet.racket-lang.org/package-source/gcr/pdf-render.plt/2/2/planet-docs/main/index.html
>>
>> On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 12:19:37 +0900, Yoshimoto Haruhiro <accalyne at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi, I'm using Racket 5.2.1 on Gentoo Linux.
>>> Is there any way to draw PostScript or EPS (or some other vector
>>> image) file as pict data in slideshow?
>>>
>>> I know that it is possible to draw PNG file by using (bitmap ..) function.
>>> However, if i convert EPS to PNG and print it as PostScript, i see a
>>> jaggy when zoomed-in since it is not a vector image anymore.
>>> I want to avoid the problem.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
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