| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Daniel Westermann <daniel(dot)westermann(at)dbi-services(dot)com> |
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| Subject: | Re: Images in the official documentation |
| Date: | 2018-02-24 01:04:26 |
| Message-ID: | 30d7e365-cd3b-aae0-a8ac-7b880f26413d@2ndquadrant.com |
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On 2/23/18 11:21, Tom Lane wrote:
> In the distant
> past, as I recall, we had a GIF or two; but we abandoned that on the
> grounds that it was unmaintainable and also incompatible with some
> documentation output formats. I'm not too sure what the state of
> play is on the latter point, now that we've switched to XML.
The complications with the image formats in the past were mainly around
what ((pdf)jade)tex would accept. The tools have shifted a bit now, and
the zoo formats is a different one. Nothing that a few make rules
couldn't address, though, I think.
The issue of how to manage the sources is still the same, though.
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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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