Messages in this thread |  | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Sat, 19 Nov 2016 13:09:40 -0800 | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents |
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On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> wrote: > > I did some research on Friday trying to identify where those images > came. It turns that, for the oldest images (before I took the media > maintainership), PDF were actually their "source", as far as I could track, > in the sense that the *.gif images were produced from the PDF. > > The images seem to be generated using some LaTeX tool. Their original > format were probably EPS.
The original format was almost certainly xfig.
Converting fig files to eps and pdf to then encapsulate them into LaTeX was a very common way to do documentation with simple figures. Iirc, xfig natively supported "export as eps".
Linus
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