Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] A good graphic for the front cover of the Ethe real User's guide?

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Unfortunately, this will not do the job, because, while I can possibly 
> increase the DPI, the best thing is to have an SVG. That is, to have the 
> objects be postscript, and not a bitmap in postscript.

Unfortunately, not being a graphics expert, I don't know whether
raytracing can generate vector rather than raster images, although I
wouldn't be surprised to hear that the answer is "no", given the way I
understand raytracing works.

I don't know whether it's possible to take a POV-ray description and
generate PostScript or, if it is possible, whether there's any software
that does it.

(A non-bitmap PostScript image may be ideal, but a bitmap might not be
too bad.

I've seen PDF product brochures with screenshots that Acrobat Reader
appears to scale down to fit, as they're not all that readable at the
standard size, but are readable when you magnify the document.  However,
they're probably just bitmaps that get scaled down - or up; if I scale
the EtherPeek data sheet up, the pixelization of the screenshot is
pretty obvious, so that's probably what's happening.

This means that bitmaps aren't ideal, but if you want the chrome logo,
you may be stuck with a bitmap, unless one could either automatically or
manually generate a PostScript program from a POV-ray description.)