Re: nice b&w EPS from Gnumeric charts?

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 12:00:32AM -0700, Jeffery von Ronne wrote:
> Does anyone know of a good way to get nice black & white EPS from
> Gnumeric charts?  I've got some charts in Gnumeric that I want to
> include in PhD dissertation (which is written latex), but I'm having 
> trouble getting something decent out of Gnumeric.
>
> I tried the "Save as" function, which allows PNGs, JPEGs, and SVGs.
> PNGs and JPEGs are, of course, inadequate because they're raster
> format and need to be made huge in order to have sufficient quality.
> But the SVG export is also inadequate because it doesn't support the
> patterns on my bars in my barchart, and since my dissertation needs to
> be black and white I need the patterns in order to distinguish the
> different items in the legend.
>
> The other thing I tried was to do a "print to file" and then convert
> that to EPS, but the file resulting file is huge and doesn't look very
> nice in "gv."
>
> Is it possible to get a nice EPS out of a Gnumeric chart?  
> (I'm using Gnumeric 1.5.2; I was using 1.4.3, but I upgraded
> to see if that would help, but it didn't seem to.)

There is code there to print to a ps file (as evidenced by the fact
that we can print charts in sheets) but we have not gotten around to
hooking it up to the save-as mechanism.  It shouldn't be hard.
Please make an enhancement request in bugzilla.