Re: PNG export from the command line: cairo vs. normal

[Till Dörges <td pre-secure de>]

Lars Clausen wrote on 13.10.2005 22:05:

> > apparently there are two PNG exports (cairo and normal), but for 
> > command line operation (dia -t png) "cairo" seems to be the only 
> > choice.
>
> Is this in Windows or Linux?

Linux. SUSE 9.3, to be precise. ;-)


> > I was unable to try the CVS version. My attempts to compile 
> > directly from CVS broke with a few complaints by autoconf.
[...]
> You very likely don't have the libraries required to build, then.

Well, possible. I did install package the the SUSE-spec file suggested,
though.


> But it's curious that cairo should be the only one available, since 
> normally there is libart and gdkpixbuf, if Dia was compiled with 
> support for them.  I wasn't aware that the Cairo plugin was even able
>  to do png yet. Hans must have come further than I thought...
> Have you tried with -t png-libart or -t pixbuf-png?

No, I haven't, because 'dia --help' only showed 'png' as a valid choice.

But '-t png-libart' does the trick. :-)

Thank you very much!

Regards -- Till
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