Re: Unicode in .eps output

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 29 Sep 2003, Gerard Milmeister wrote:
> I installed dia 0.92-pre4 because 0.91 didn't work
> with pango 1.2.5.
> However Unicode characters in eps output is wrong. I used
> for example uppercase gamma, and a different character
> appears in the Postscript file, although png output is
> correct. If I recall correctly in 0.91 the PS output 
> was correct.

This is with Pango rendered output?  PS fonts don't handle Unicode at all,
really.  

> It would also be nice to be able to pass an argument
> to dia to specify the resolution at which to generate
> png. I have dia files where using the commandline interface
> I generate .eps files to include in TeX and png to include
> in HTML.

Indeed.  We should have a more usable way to pass parameters to the export
filters.  Currently only the PNG export takes parameters, and it does that
in a kludgy way.

-Lars

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