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LibreOffice 4.0 released

LibreOffice 4.0 released

Posted Feb 11, 2013 19:20 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: LibreOffice 4.0 released by HelloWorld
Parent article: LibreOffice 4.0 released

> If your presentation program forces you to use raster graphics, then I suggest you use another one. LaTeX interoperates with a variety of vector formats such as SVG or PDF. Also some programs (such as Gnuplot or QtiPlot) allow you to export the graph in PGF/TikZ format, making integration with LaTeX trivial.

I had a paper to do for a class and I used circuitmacros[1] to convert from m4[2] to eps and embedded a our circuit diagram right into the PDF as a vector drawing. I'd like to see any presentation editor do that…

[1]There's some tedious work to get the wires laid out right, but once the shape is set, components can be moved around without an issue.
[2]Not the best of languages, but it was an interesting exercise.


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LibreOffice 4.0 released

Posted Feb 11, 2013 20:46 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

We did something similar (with graphviz files) using VB macros back in 2001 (I think).

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