Re: Re[2]: 0.91 version and EPS/PDF problems

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Alan G. Isaac wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 07 Jun 2003 04:14:07 -0500 Lars Clausen <lrclause@cs.uiuc.edu>
> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Given that Rodrigo was happy through 0.90 in this regard,
> as I was, it seems that it is important to maintain the
> ability not to include font definitions in EPS files.
> In fact, this is the output that I almost always want.

I guess I didn't explain clearly.  In 0.91, we don't include font
definitions.  We don't rely on built-in fonts.  We don't use any fonts in
the EPS at all.  We convert each character to a set of curves and so avoid
the font definition problem totally.  However, this means that PS
conversion tools are useless text-wise, and apparently PDF isn't too happy
either. 

Once PangoPDF is usable, we shall use that and certainly allow the user to
not dump font information if so desired.

-Lars

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