Bug 428110 - Please enable PDF export
Summary: Please enable PDF export
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: grace
Version: 8
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
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Assignee: José Matos
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-01-09 10:22 UTC by Mary Ellen Foster
Modified: 2008-01-09 11:19 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-01-09 11:08:57 UTC
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Description Mary Ellen Foster 2008-01-09 10:22:27 UTC
Description of problem:
According to the Grace website, it should be possible to "print" (i.e., export)
to a PDF file. However, that's not one of the options in the Fedora package --
has it been disabled? If so, can it be enabled?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
grace-5.1.21-4.fc8

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a graph
2. Try to export to PDF
  
Actual results:
Can't do it; use export to ps and ps2pdf instead

Expected results:
Should have PDF as an output format

Comment 1 José Matos 2008-01-09 11:08:57 UTC
The support for pdf requires the use of a library that is not free/open 
software and thus is not included in Fedora. Thus we can not link with it and 
no pdf is available. :-(

This issue was considered when the package was reviewed for inclusion in 
Fedora. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=166414

Since the same conditions still hold I am sorry that the verdict is still the 
same. :-(

Comment 2 Mary Ellen Foster 2008-01-09 11:19:39 UTC
Well, darn. Oh well, I've got a perfectly good workaround using ps2pdf so I
guess that'll do. Thanks for the prompt response! :)


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