PS issues

[Wynand Winterbach <wynand dip sun ac za>]

The following would be a *nasty* hack, and I wouldn't be surprised
Lars, if you don't like it:

As an interim solution for people who need to modify the PS text
for whatever reason, a startup flag (say -psfonts) could be added,
that would make DIA save text using PS fonts, regardless of the 
fact that it might look all wrong. Then, in the future releases, 
the flag could remain for backwards compatibility, with no
effect.

I'd love to take a look, but as soon as I get time, I'd want to
work on the line renderer (apropos the post I made a few days
ago).

Anyhow, just a (kludge of a) suggestion.

--Wynand

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 05:52:20AM -0500, Lars Clausen wrote:
> On 23 Sep 2003, Wynand Winterbach wrote:
> > I know this is really quite late to complain, but I only
> > recently ran into this...
> >
> > I use the Latex package PSFrag, which replaces strings
> > in a postscript file with Latex strings.
> >
> > The issue is that it works up to 0.88, but not in 0.9
> > and up.
> >
> > The only thing that this could mean is that the format
> > in which the EPS files get exported, has changed into
> > something that PSFrag does not like.
> >
> > Does anyone have a similar complaint?
>
> Yes, when changing to Pango we changed the PS output method to ensure that
> text appeared in PS as on the screen.  Since Pango has no PS output support
> of its own, we snarfed code from PAPS to render fonts as beziers as an
> interim solution.  We hope to be able to use PDFlib for better output, or
> at least make the standard fonts be output using PS fonts instead.
> However, nobody has had the time to do either of these yet.
>
> -Lars
>
> -- 
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