[Coin-discuss] MaxCut and Mkc

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Stephan Hennig wrote:

> Matthew Saltzman schrieb:
>
> > On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Stephan Hennig wrote:
> >
> >> I think you should mark pdf-documents as binary too (like the one
> >> in Bcp/Doc/). If ps- or fig-documents are critical to different
> >> line feeds too I don't know yet.
> >
> > PostScript and fig are plain text formats, so they should almost
> > certainly contain the local system line feeds.
>
> Thanks for making this clear. I wasn't sure if that is specified that
> way in the postscript standard and old printers really can cope with all
> of them unix, windows and macintosh style line breaks. dvi2ps generates
> ps files with Unix style line breaks on my Windows machine too.

Interesting.  Can you see what happens if you save an MS-Word or other Win
application output as PostScript?  Usually, that entails "printing to a
file" using a PostScript printer driver.

>
> > FYI, fig is a format that (as far as I can find) is specific to Xfig
> > and jFig.  Those files are mostly there for archival reasons (they
> > are the sources for the corresponding .eps files).  Xfig is a Unix
> > program, but can be built for Windows using Cygwin.  jFig is an Xfig
> > clone written in Java, which can be installed in Windows as well as
> > Unix.
>
> Thanks, there is another Xfig clone called WinFIG that is installed on
> my Windows machine and I can report that it seems to work with Windows
> line breaks here. Should have tried it before.
>
> But pdf files should definitely be fixed.

Yes.

>
> Kind regards,
> Stephan Hennig
>
>
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