On Mon, 16 May 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Johan Ingvast wrote: > > > > A much simpler way is to run mptopdf which creates pdf-files > > directly and handles all the font problems. > > > > /johan > > > Thanks for the tip. It turns out I'll need to install a full version of > Perl to use mptopdf. Before I do that, I'm going to try Ipe, which > looks like it might be useful, particularly as it can include math-mode > LaTeX in plot labels. The font problem I had with Dia related to > displaying math-mode labels. Even if I get that resolved, I don't think > it will be easy to position them correctly in Dia, since the LaTeX > source text is not the same size as the end result. Switching to Ipe seems like a good choice, and is actually what I've done. Apart from beeing good at handling math-labels its drawing functionallities are great. /johan
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