Re[2]: How to export text to EPS as text (no curves)?

["Alejandro Aguilar Sierra" <asierra servidor unam mx>]

In fact you can adjust the seperation between words and characters
(allowing fine grain width adjust) with simple postscript commands like
ashow, widthshow etc. show is the command to print a string in postscript.
So, hacking the eps exporter we could do it in a clean way. Opinions?


> On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 08:12:26 -0500 Lars Clausen <lrclause@cs.uiuc.edu>
> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I do not understand this claim.  PostScript text is entirely
> scalable.  If you can fit a box once, you can fit it at any
> scale.  Or are you saying you have no mechanism for
> computing the width or height of PostScript strings, so you
> cannot even fit a box once?  This is a very standard problem
> and there should be many applicable solutions on hand.
> (I realize I probably just do not understand the problem
> you intend to describe.)
>
>> 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.
>
> Can you point me to a discussion of these legal issues.
> (I am just curious.)
>
> In any case, give me the option of exporting the cleanest
> ordinary EPS files you can (with no embedded or simulated
> fonts), and I can always tinker with them ex post if need
> be.
>
> Thanks,
> Alan Isaac
>
>
>
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