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[Postscript] Emitting Postscript from REBOL
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Henrik 19-Apr-2006 [765] | been working on that thing for way too long... but hopefully it can be completed now |
james_nak 19-Apr-2006 [766] | How did you do those lists with the rows and columns? : - ) Just kidding, Looks great. |
Henrik 19-Apr-2006 [767] | that's current generation LIST-VIEW. no hidden mirrors or anything. |
james_nak 19-Apr-2006 [768] | You mean the version that is posted? |
Henrik 19-Apr-2006 [769x3] | yes |
well, there might actually be one feature missing in 0.0.38: focusing and unfocusing of list views | |
unfocused list views sport a grey selector instead of a green one | |
Graham 19-Apr-2006 [772] | Henrik, nice .. but I can't see the problem. |
Henrik 19-Apr-2006 [773] | the "paper" in the bottom shows "0000". They are slightly aligned to the left. They shouldn't be. |
Graham 19-Apr-2006 [774x2] | Ahh.. |
but that's a View preview - presumably the postscript print out is centred? | |
Henrik 19-Apr-2006 [776] | I hope so |
Graham 19-Apr-2006 [777x8] | I noticed that viewing pdfs from ps2pdf is not exact. |
the vertical height is not right in the pdf. | |
If you look at my layout examples above, you can see that the font size is not the same as the point size used in View. | |
So, that a fontsize of 20 gives a y: 23 | |
fontsize of 12, gives y: 15 | |
Perhaps they should be equal. | |
but it may relate to the horizontal displacement problem you're having. | |
can any view experts explain why the difference? | |
Henrik 19-Apr-2006 [785] | that's right. the font points are of a smaller dpi than the coordinate system it seems |
Graham 19-Apr-2006 [786] | I'll submit a rambo ... |
Henrik 19-Apr-2006 [787x2] | I think the font size is bound to the screen resolution |
under linux they tend to go up or down, because you can set the DPI settings in X | |
Graham 19-Apr-2006 [789] | So, what do you suggest? |
Henrik 19-Apr-2006 [790] | post a RAMBO and see what happens. at least on the size difference between fonts in VID and fonts in DRAW |
Graham 19-Apr-2006 [791] | Perhaps you can .. |
Henrik 19-Apr-2006 [792] | I can't confirm it, and I haven't worked that much with it yet to be certain. |
Graham 20-Apr-2006 [793x3] | Posted a rambo on the subject. |
I can't see RT changing anything here without invalidating every script before that uses a | |
font. | |
Henrik 20-Apr-2006 [796] | it'll have to be worked around for now. if the size deviation is proportional to the size of the font, it could be fixed with a coefficient on the font size of the DRAW text |
Graham 20-Apr-2006 [797x2] | Chris posted this to me |
Is this indicative of the current problem? >> foreach typeface ["arial" "times new roman" "verdana" "trebuchet ms"][ [ layout [tx: text font [name: typeface size: 10] do [probe second size-text tx]] [ ] 13 12 12 15 | |
Henrik 21-Apr-2006 [799x2] | hmm... preview.app has a funny way of detecting when to rotate the paper. if the first given text is rotated 90 degrees, it will rotate the paper, otherwise it will not. I wonder if this is standard behaviour? |
oh, great, now I can't print Danish letters with PS | |
JaimeVargas 21-Apr-2006 [801] | Starting to hit the inticancies of the postscript language? |
Henrik 21-Apr-2006 [802x7] | geomol, seems postscript.r needs to be patched to convert the chars to octals to print them out |
jaime, just need to figure out how to do it | |
(under a bit of time pressure) | |
geomol: http://www.sslug.dk/emailarkiv/prog/2002_09/msg00132.html <--- this might be interesting | |
geomol, actually the entire thread is interesting | |
by inserting the code in postscript.r I can get the chars I want. works fine now, but you need to specify the fonts correctly from "HelveticaBold" to "HelveticaBold-ISOLatin1" instead. | |
(the code mentioned in the link) | |
Geomol 21-Apr-2006 [809] | Ok, I'll take a look... |
Henrik 21-Apr-2006 [810] | geomol, I can upload what I did |
Geomol 21-Apr-2006 [811] | Seems a bit complicated to get ISO-8859-1. What about other languages? |
Henrik 21-Apr-2006 [812x2] | I don't know. strangely, I didn't need them :-) |
I tried representing the chars with octals, but that didn't work. I don't know what I did wrong, but it would be a simpler solution | |
Gabriele 22-Apr-2006 [814] | pdf does not support unicode fonts, and i guess the same might be true for ps... so good luck :) |
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