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Ahh..

but that's a View preview - presumably the postscript print out is 
centred?

I hope so

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?

that's right. the font points are of a smaller dpi than the coordinate 
system it seems

I'll submit a rambo ...

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

So, what do you suggest?

post a RAMBO and see what happens. at least on the size difference 
between fonts in VID and fonts in DRAW

Perhaps you can ..

I can't confirm it, and I haven't worked that much with it yet to 
be certain.

Posted a rambo on the subject.

I can't see RT changing anything here without invalidating every 
script before that uses a

font.

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

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

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

Starting to hit the inticancies of the postscript language?

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)

Ok, I'll take a look...

geomol, I can upload what I did

Seems a bit complicated to get ISO-8859-1. What about other languages?

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

pdf does not support unicode fonts, and i guess the same might be 
true for ps... so good luck :)

is anyone working on higher level stuff for postscript.r? I'm going 
to work on a table generator

I'm semi-wondering about implementing text that flows from page to 
page with full justification.

about DRAW, I'm sure how fit it is for this yet. I had serious problems 
with it under Linux today (misalignment and crashes too)

well, if you have crashes, you need to report them.

Did I mention that I have three columns of text snaking up and down 
an A4 page?

if I could test it... wasn't on my machine and I couldn't get console 
output

that sounds interesting?

that was your runner labeling application?

the centering algorithm I wrote didn't work under Linux either