World: r3wp

Too deep for me to solve that tonight. However I've come this far:

http://rebol.hmkdesign.dk/files/vid-postscript2.png

if you track the font size, then you have the vertical size of the 
text.

Improving... How fast can it render the postscript ? Can you make 
it dynamic update ?

Graham, the relationship between font/size and lineheight is not 
so simple, unfortunately.

in postscript ...

Anton, by far the slowest component is Ghostscript. Creating the 
postscript file is about as fast as an ordinary layout.

The advantage is that it's rendered from faces, not VID directly, 
so I assume this will work with RebGUI as well.

Anton, it takes about 2-5 seconds to create the render here

Henrik, what exactly are you doing?

Graham, I'm creating postscript output from faces. That's all.

cool

it works like TO-IMAGE.

so, for multiple pages?

one page per layout

so, to produce the postscript from multiple layouts?

foreach l layouts [to-postscript l]

so this produces a single page of postscript?

each to-postscript call produces one single page.

that means if you have 4 pages, you create 4 separate layouts and 
call to-postscript 4 times.

but it's quite possible that I could deliver a block of layouts...

...to to-postscript to generate multiple pages in one go.

that's what I do at present ... I have a block of layouts

and then i generate a single page of postscript from all the layouts

a single page from multiple layouts?

yes

no

one postscript file but multiple pages

inefficient to produce a single postscript file for each layout

yes, true

I can upload it it you want to play with it.

sure ..

My method is because I have a single document that goes over many 
pages

http://rebol.hmkdesign.dk/files/to-postscript.r

load Geomol's postscript.r first.

where is it?

this one ? http://hmkdesign.dk/rebol/postscript/postscript.r

yes, that will be fine

neat

I've now added multipage support (simpler than I thought)

even better

Anyway, excellent way to get a screen print of a View layout

it's almost stupidly simple. :-) it's one of those things I wish 
I came up with 2-3 years ago. could have saved a lot of work. the 
secret is just to slavishly follow the offsets and sizes already 
generated with VID or RebGUI.

no fancy postscript measuring tools are used.

I'm not sure it would work with microjustification of text

we don't have finer type setting features, but I can live with that, 
as long as I have a simple and quick way to build postscript pages.

can you get that type of resolution with View?

if you scale your view up and then appropriately scale the postscript 
down, yeah

scale it up so that it's too big for the screen?  :)

yes, you can create 10000x10000 layouts if you want to, they just 
won't fit on the paper without scaling them down. I did something 
similar once in a different system, but it proved to be unusably 
slow on smaller PCs and it eats memory.

yes