Re: 0.91 version and EPS/PDF problems



On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Rodrigo Souza de Castro wrote:
Hi there,

I have some diagrams saved in .dia format that I used in a
dissertation. Up to 0.90 version, I used to export it to EPS format,
and convert it to PDF using ps2pdf program, which worked just
fine. Nevertheless, it seems that 0.91 version (Debian sid package)
introduced some problems in this process. Exporting to EPS still works
and it looks fine in gv and other viewers, but the EPS output isn't
the same as 0.90 version or olders, in particular regarding font
definitions. For this reason, when I convert it to PDF, the fonts are
very ugly (they aren't scalable nor type 1), thus I can't use these
files in a PDF presentation, for example. Is this a bug or have I
missed something when exporting these diagrams? Let me know if you
need a more details.

This is a known problem that is due to the early adoption of Pango.
Instead of actually outputting font defs, we convert each character into a
shape using code from paps.  Once pangopdf is usable, we'd *love* to use
that for both PS and PDF output, but doing PS output ourselves is a lot of
work that we'd rather use on Dia-related things.  Sorry about the PDF
problems (I've had it hit me myself), but it's an interim solution.

-Lars

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