On 7 Sep 2003, Alejandro Aguilar Sierra wrote: > 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?
Now that's an interesting idea. Mind you, I'm not a PS export by any means, so I miss many options like this. Of course, as you could see in Cyrilles mail, there remains the problems of font embedding and i18n, but I suppose you could allow the choice for those who don't require the fancy things. In fact, it could be possible to scan the document for non-ASCII chars and non-standard-PS fonts, and if none are found, use ashow/widthshow with the standard fonts. Not something I want to do for 0.92, as it'd take a lot of tinkering to get right, and we really need another version out. But if you can help us with this, I expect with can do it for 0.93. If we could then steal some (partial) font embedding code somewhere and figure out translations from Unicode to whatever the fonts might require, we'd be all set:) -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| Hårdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? _______________________________________________ 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
