[7377] in SIPB bug reports
Re: bug of Xfig
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Belmonte)
Fri Sep 24 19:30:58 1999
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 19:32:57 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199909242332.TAA01665@mattababy.mit.edu>
From: belmonte@MIT.EDU (Matthew Belmonte)
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
Cc: gnu@MIT.EDU
At 24 Sep 1999 16:39:04 -0400, jqiu wrote (to bug-sipb),
>I use Xfig to generate figures. now I need to use powerpoint to include some
>jpg figures, but I cannot use the 'export' item in Xfig to export a jpg file,
>though there is a jpg option. the erro message is as following: how to fix
>that?
>
> Unknown device: jpeg
>Error: /undefined in /findfont
This has cropped up before, but I don't think the issue was ever settled:
At 09 May 1999 16:52:15 -0400, amu wrote,
>This is actually a bug in fig2dev which I can fix after the term
>ends. (The gs sources in the gnu locker don't seem to have any
>support for jpeg output.)
At 09 May 1999 23:36:54 -0400, amu wrote,
>Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
>> One might ask why we don't build a non-GNU gs with a reasonable set
>> of output devices if the gnu one doesn't support common graphics
>> formats like jpeg.
>
>It looks like ccount is already on that. (See [517] and [518] in gnu.)
At 09 Jun 1999 16:19:48 -0400, tb wrote,
>The binaries for gs in sgi_62, sgi_63, and sun4x_56 all certainly seem
>to have jpeg support; at least, they have all the functions for jpeg
>in the image.
