Re: Text in EPS export

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Koen Vermeer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to use the Dia EPS export and replace text in it with the
> psfrag package (for LaTeX). Unfortunately, this didn't work, since the
> exported EPS file apparently includes the text in a different way than
> just as normal text. 

Yes; with Pango, there's no simple way to dump the fonts, but we got some
code that will dump the outlines.  We plan to move towards a real embedded
font solution.

> So, my procedure now is to export it to .fig and
> run fig2dev to convert it to eps.
> Is there any other way of doing this?

The CVS version is in a serious state of rebuilding after the introduction
of Pango, this is causing all the exporters to need their text export parts
redone.  It'll be a bit before it's ready.

-Lars

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