Hi Peter, I thought you might be an early responder on this issue :-).
pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: > >>>>> "Erik" == Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+s...@mega-nerd.com> writes: > > Erik> Hi all, Years ago I had a need to add text dynamically to a > Erik> template Postscript document. My solution was a small program > Erik> that sucked in the Postscript template and then inserted > Erik> Postscript commands to render the required additional text. > > With UTF-8 it's a problem. That's what I'm finding. > My preferred solution would be to change > to a XeLaTeX template, and generate PDF/PS from that. as XeLaTeX > already understands UTF-8 and Unicode, and can import PDF graphics, or > use a PDF file as a background over which to put imported text/grachics, This would be a solution if it was something I was running in front of me on my own machine. Unfortunately, this is being done to print tickets in kiosk type devices administered remotely over the net. It this situation I would prefer not to run LaTeX because a) it's rather slow in comparison to what we have now and b) doing error detecion/recovery is hard. More research needed it seems. Cheers, Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
