Re: 0.91 version and EPS/PDF problems

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Rodrigo Souza de Castro wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I have some diagrams saved in .dia format that I used in a
> dissertation. Up to 0.90 version, I used to export it to EPS format,
> and convert it to PDF using ps2pdf program, which worked just
> fine. Nevertheless, it seems that 0.91 version (Debian sid package)
> introduced some problems in this process. Exporting to EPS still works
> and it looks fine in gv and other viewers, but the EPS output isn't
> the same as 0.90 version or olders, in particular regarding font
> definitions. For this reason, when I convert it to PDF, the fonts are
> very ugly (they aren't scalable nor type 1), thus I can't use these
> files in a PDF presentation, for example. Is this a bug or have I
> missed something when exporting these diagrams? Let me know if you
> need a more details.

This is a known problem that is due to the early adoption of Pango.
Instead of actually outputting font defs, we convert each character into a
shape using code from paps.  Once pangopdf is usable, we'd *love* to use
that for both PS and PDF output, but doing PS output ourselves is a lot of
work that we'd rather use on Dia-related things.  Sorry about the PDF
problems (I've had it hit me myself), but it's an interim solution.

-Lars

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