Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753301AbcKSVJo (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Nov 2016 16:09:44 -0500 Received: from mail-oi0-f66.google.com ([209.85.218.66]:36239 "EHLO mail-oi0-f66.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753020AbcKSVJm (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Nov 2016 16:09:42 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161119185433.331a132b@vento.lan> References: <20161107075524.49d83697@vento.lan> <11020459.EheIgy38UF@wuerfel> <20161116182633.74559ffd@vento.lan> <2923918.nyphv1Ma7d@wuerfel> <20161119101543.12b89563@lwn.net> <20161119185433.331a132b@vento.lan> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 13:09:40 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 5rLftXr2OF_3I84_Wv0bV6G5rjU Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Jonathan Corbet , Arnd Bergmann , ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, "open list:DOCUMENTATION" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Media Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 731 Lines: 18 On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab 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