[gl2ps] gl2ps/PDF

Christophe Geuzaine cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be
Sun May 17 19:28:13 CEST 2009


Olivier Couet wrote:
> Hi Christophe,
> 
> I have a question about gl2ps and PDF format. In root (our application) we 
> have our own PDF diver to generate PDF output. Now we have picture mixing 
> classical 2D output and 3D graphics rendered by OpenGL. I am able to mix 
> these 2 in one single PS file by generating the gl2ps output as EPS (with 
> some PS scaling and translation before the gleps part it is almost ok).
> 
> I would like to do the same with PDF. Is there a way ? I guess I would 
> need to retrieve the number of bytes gl2ps generated to have correct value 
> at the end of my PDF file).

Hi Olivier - Unfortunately I don't know the PDF spec well enough to give 
you any sound advice... Maybe someone else on the list?




> 
> Cheers,   Olivier
> 


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