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[Postscript] Emitting Postscript from REBOL
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Graham 15-Apr-2006 [582] | the print button, unimplemented, would send the post script file to your printer. |
Henrik 15-Apr-2006 [583x3] | wow |
that's really all I can say at this point | |
graham, out of curiosity, can you scale as you want? could you implement a slider? I'd like to see how fast it is. | |
Graham 15-Apr-2006 [586] | Yes, could implement a slider .. if I can remember how to do sliders! |
Henrik 15-Apr-2006 [587] | SLIDER in the layout and then use /data to extract the position which is between 0 and 1 |
Graham 15-Apr-2006 [588x8] | :) |
There's a free postscript viewer and allows you to print in windows here: http://www.rops.org/ | |
It's http://www.rops.org/download/freescript53.exeand does only Level 1. | |
a measly 324Kb. | |
Uses windows installed fonts instead of postscript fonts to preview and print. | |
http://www.compkarori.com/reb/psd2draw.r | |
has a slider now for Henrik :) | |
it gets all screwed up when really small. | |
Henrik 15-Apr-2006 [596] | the fonts scale a little funny |
Graham 15-Apr-2006 [597] | Just uploaded a newer version that places the slider vertically. |
Henrik 15-Apr-2006 [598x2] | I thought there was subpixel accuracy |
it scales transforms as well, it seems | |
Graham 15-Apr-2006 [600x4] | Perhaps I've done something wrong. |
that gray box is not right. | |
as you scale it, you can see it moving closer to the other box. | |
It is supposed to be superimposed on the other box from the start. | |
Henrik 15-Apr-2006 [604x2] | no it moves and rotates. maybe SCALE is working too well? |
As in, scales all transform parameters | |
Graham 15-Apr-2006 [606x2] | Text does undergo scaling or rotations. |
*doesn't | |
Henrik 15-Apr-2006 [608] | what if you convert the text to vectors? |
Graham 15-Apr-2006 [609x3] | could do ... use vectorial text. |
I didn't try. | |
For those without postscript printers, using the free version of rops.exe might be a solution for them. | |
Henrik 15-Apr-2006 [612] | there is a free version? |
Graham 15-Apr-2006 [613x5] | I'm hoping someone who knows more about draw can fix this for me :) |
free version of rops is level 1 ps. | |
the versions that cost do level 2 and 3. | |
http://www.rops.org/download/freescript53.exewhich is the free version for windows | |
I got the impression that AGG draw is skewed a little to assist producing SVG graphics .. but there's a strong case to support postscript better instead. | |
Geomol 15-Apr-2006 [618] | Looks good, Graham. I hope to get time one of the comming days to investigate PS a little more, so the dialect can be more complete. I like your idea about getting rid of blocks, and I hope to make a consistent version with few blocks, maybe only for font. |
Gabriele 15-Apr-2006 [619] | text in draw can only be transformed if rendered in vector mode |
Graham 15-Apr-2006 [620] | changing the text to vector mode now has the text obeying the rotation. |
Henrik 15-Apr-2006 [621] | did you upload that one? |
Graham 15-Apr-2006 [622x9] | no. |
text: [err: set txt string! ( fontcount: fontcount + 1 set to-word join "font" fontcount make face/font compose [ size: (fontsize) name: (fontname) color: (rgb) ] pos/y: pos/y - fontsize repend output [ 'font (to-word join "font" fontcount) 'pen rgb 'text 'vectorial txt pos ] ) ] | |
Of course vector fonts look quite different. | |
So, I can't see much use for my purposes. | |
Times-Roman "Times New Roman" "Courier" "Courier New" "Helvetica-Oblique" "Arial Italic" "Helvetica" "Arial" "Times-Oblique" "Times New Roman Italic" "Helvetica-Oblique" "Arial Italic" "Courier-Oblique" "Courier New Italic" "Times-Bold" "Times New Roman Bold" "Helvetica-Bold" "Arial Bold" "Courier-Bold" "Courier New Bold" "Times-BoldOblique" "Times New Roman Bold Italic" "Helvetica-BoldOblique" "Arial Bold Italic" "Courier-BoldOblique" "Courier New Bold Italic" | |
Can someone check these to see if they are correctly matched ? The left hand is the postscript font, and the right hand is the true type font | |
I'm not sure about Times ... | |
these http://www.rops.org/download/std35ttf.zipare the ghostscript GNU fonts equivalent to the 35 postscript fonts | |
so, you can install these and get pretty exact matching. You'll have to change the lookup table above. | |
Maxim 15-Apr-2006 [631] | I always thought arial was wider than Helvetica in aspect... but I've never really compared them to see if they are really the same font... |
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