In fact you can adjust the seperation between words and characters (allowing fine grain width adjust) with simple postscript commands like ashow, widthshow etc. show is the command to print a string in postscript. So, hacking the eps exporter we could do it in a clean way. Opinions?
> On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 08:12:26 -0500 Lars Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> The problem is that we don't have a text export that preserves the >> size of the strings, or we'd use that. If we used regular (E)PS text, >> strings would overflow their boxes or leave big gaps. > > I do not understand this claim. PostScript text is entirely > scalable. If you can fit a box once, you can fit it at any > scale. Or are you saying you have no mechanism for > computing the width or height of PostScript strings, so you > cannot even fit a box once? This is a very standard problem > and there should be many applicable solutions on hand. > (I realize I probably just do not understand the problem > you intend to describe.) > >> There's work afoot to make a Pango renderer that does PDF >> & PS, but there are some legal issues of the underlying >> PDFlib to solve first. > > Can you point me to a discussion of these legal issues. > (I am just curious.) > > In any case, give me the option of exporting the cleanest > ordinary EPS files you can (with no embedded or simulated > fonts), and I can always tinker with them ex post if need > be. > > Thanks, > Alan Isaac > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dia-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list > FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html > Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
