Re: PS tricks & dia export

[Benoît Pelletier <bpelle tsp ece mcgill ca>]

I have had a number of difficulties using PsTricks and dia.

I have now started to use psfrag instead and found it to work pretty
well.  One drawback is that you don't see the result in dia directly and
you may have to manually adjust the size of your boxes etc in your
diagram based on the latex output. 

Nevertheless, psfrag allows you to easily put complex latex parbox quite
easily and allows you to scale and rotate your text.

Have a look at the documentation on CTAN; try it; it might suit you.

Benoit P.

P.S.: I don't think psfrag replaces a good LaTeX integration with dia;
it is just missing now.

On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 08:45, Oleg Mürk wrote:
> 
>  Hello!
> 
>  I have a problem :)
> 
>  When exporting dia diagram to PSTricks, all labels (text)
>  are drawn at the wrong place. I have investigated a bit
>  and here are my conclusions:
> 
>    dia exports diagrams in the following form:
>    ----------------------------------------------
> 	\pspicture(0,0)(10,10)
> 		\scalebox{1 -1}{
> 			\rput(5,-5){\scalebox{1 -1}{Blaaaaaaah}}
> 		}
> 	\endpspicture
>    ----------------------------------------------
>    This is perfectly correct code, but it seems that
>    PSTricks has a bug: \scalebox is not applied to
>    \rput (at least with my MikTex and PSTricks from CTAN).
>    As a result text is drawn at the wrong place.
> 
>  I understand that the right place to go to is to the
>  maintainers of PSTricks, but if I understand correctly,
>  nobody deals with it at the current time. So my proposal
>  would be to to get rid of \scalebox{1,-1} transoformations
>  and make them on the fly - just multiply $y$ by $-1$ - this
>  is what I do currently by hand...
> 
>  There is one more problem :) Lines of width 0 become
>  very thick when exported to EPS. For this reason such EPS
>  becomes pretty useless...
> 
>  My environment:
> 	Ms Windows 2000 SP 2
> 	MikTEX
> 	Yapp 0.98n
> 	Latest PSTricks from CTAN
> 	Dia 0.88.2 <- dia-installer.sourceforge.net
> 
>  With best wishes, Oleg Mürk
>  -------------------
>  olegm@ut.ee
>  http://www.ut.ee/~olegm
> 
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