linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents

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Date:   Sat, 19 Nov 2016 13:09:40 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        "open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents

On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
<mchehab@...pensource.com> 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