World: r3wp

I don't have a problem with font positioning in draw and postscript.

Just text rotations and other fancy stuff.

what about centering?

Yeah .. seems to work.

sizes?

I have text centring and flow across multiple pages

maybe it's time for me to test it...

Didn't I upload an example of text boxes and flow and centering?

I haven't seen it. Synapse?

hang on .. let me see.

http://hmkdesign.dk/run16.png<--- I want to upgrade this preview 
from "hokey" to "good looking"

Looks good to me.

but it takes 2 seconds to render

it does not look like "hokey" to me :-)

it's plain VID, done in double size, blurred a couple of times and 
some contrast added to it and then scaled down quickly with 'fit

how is barcode part done?

Henrik, this drop-down menu is your own or standard VID?

rebolek: it's my own. it uses LIST-VIEW and sports autocompleting

pekr, http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/view-script.r?script=ean13.r

pekr, sorry, this is a better link: http://www.hmkdesign.dk/rebol/barcode/

http://www.compkarori.com/reb/psd2draw5.r

sounds great, are you going to release it? because IIRC VID' drop-down 
is somehow buggy

a large chunk of text flows thru three textboxes and over into the 
next page.

the text is also partially justified ...

rebolek: this is a prototype and code is somewhat messy, but I want 
to make a better version of it for release. it depends on a few custom 
and ugly things that I don't want to release. it works quite well, 
has keyboard navigation and everything.

Graham: Why is the text visible only on 50% and 100% zoom?

It's visible at all zoom for me.

I think you don't have the right fonts installed.

You need to install this set of fonts ...

http://www.synapsedirect.com/files/5/client/entry284.aspx

these are the TT equivalents of the standard PS fonts

OK, I'll try that, thanks

my code is ugly, but it's not a beauty contest ...

Just got to get it working :)

it converts PS to DRAW? or does it create DRAW and PS from the same 
dialect?

latter...

Much better now.

But I never got round to finishing the conversion to ps yet ...

ie. for the text flow as I need to read up a bit more on postscript 
justification routines etc.

So, I can use it to generate graphs, and ordinary text for printing 
.. but fancy flowing text needs more work.

Henrik, I can't see why your preview takes 2 seconds to render.

What PC are you using?

celeron 700 with a 1 MB graphicscard

works ok on my test machine, but on the target machine, it's too 
slow...

yes, that is a slow PC.

I find View runs quite slowly on anything less than 1Ghz

are you drawing your barcode and translating it to final location?

huh, really, does it? I found View ok on Pentium 133MHz ;-)

you're probably not running large applications then.

well, old View, as new one does not support W95 anymore ..... but 
it looked ok for small things :-)