Re: pstricks export: why linewidth in centimeters?

[Lars Ræder Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 23:06 +0100, Albert Zihlmann wrote:
> I don't understand why dia puts the unit "cm" behind its linewidth 
> declaration at pstricks export. If I want to scale the image by adding 
> the statement "\psset{unit=0.5cm}" before the image file input the image 
> shrinks well but all the lines keep their thickness. If I delete 
> manually the "cm" from the exported file scaling works fine.
> 
> a) Is there a way to turn off this unit output at pstricks export?

Apply the attached (untested) patch and recompile.

> b) Or does anyone know an other way to scale such an imported image in a 
> latex document?

\resizebox{width}{height}{contents} is what I use for resizing included
postscript. One of width and height can be replaced with ! to keep
aspect ratio.

-Lars

Index: render_pstricks.c
===================================================================
--- render_pstricks.c	(revision 4138)
+++ render_pstricks.c	(working copy)
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@
     gchar d_buf[DTOSTR_BUF_SIZE];
 
 
-    fprintf(renderer->file, "\\psset{linewidth=%scm}\n",
+    fprintf(renderer->file, "\\psset{linewidth=%s}\n",
 	    pstricks_dtostr(d_buf, (gdouble) linewidth) );
 }