Re: How to export text to EPS as text (no curves)?

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 6 Sep 2003, Alejandro Aguilar Sierra wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I want to export a diagram with a lot of text, to eps but I want the text
> to be exported as text, not curves. Is it possible without hacking teh
> sources? How?

No.

> IMHO the user should have the choice to toggle the option to export text
> as text/curves. I am using last version (today cvs) and the diagram is
> not using any specific font.

The problem is that we don't have a text export that preserves the size of
the strings, or we'd use that.  If we used regular (E)PS text, strings
would overflow their boxes or leave big gaps.  There's work afoot to make a
Pango renderer that does PDF & PS, but there are some legal issues of the
underlying PDFlib to solve first.

-Lars

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