On Friday 28 November 2014 18:00:38 Julio Jiménez wrote: > > I think both (FPC devs and you) are using the same criterias. You aren't > going to develop in MSEide something you don't like or don't need. (is not > fun for you) This brings to my brain.. PDF support, > autocompletion, code > format... In fact, you haven't to do it. Probably dont' like to implement > something other users suggested for the same reason or other. >
The problem with PDF is that it does not provide the calculation options that PostScript offers. MSEgui PostScript driver makes the precision text placement in the PostScript code with the actually loaded font. PDF can't do this, there one needs to read the font files and parse the font tables in order to make precision text placement. I can't do that because fonts and their locations are too system specific, a can of worms. Embedding fonts is also problematic because of licensing issues. Another problem is PDF Unicode. It is not that I did not wanted to do it but I did not found a solution which was good enough. So I suggest to use ps2pdf. I also optimized the MSEgui PostScript output for PS-viewers as preview possibility. Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ mseide-msegui-talk mailing list mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mseide-msegui-talk
