From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9CEAD416 for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2016 21:09:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-oi0-f66.google.com (mail-oi0-f66.google.com [209.85.218.66]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 327A1124 for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2016 21:09:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oi0-f66.google.com with SMTP id f201so12827055oib.0 for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2016 13:09:42 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linus971@gmail.com 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 Message-ID: To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, "open list:DOCUMENTATION" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Media Mailing List Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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