Re: PSFrag issues

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 23 Sep 2003, Wynand Winterbach wrote:
> I know this is really quite late to complain, but I only
> recently ran into this...
>
> I use the Latex package PSFrag, which replaces strings
> in a postscript file with Latex strings.
>
> The issue is that it works up to 0.88, but not in 0.9
> and up.
>
> The only thing that this could mean is that the format
> in which the EPS files get exported, has changed into
> something that PSFrag does not like.
>
> Does anyone have a similar complaint?

Yes, when changing to Pango we changed the PS output method to ensure that
text appeared in PS as on the screen.  Since Pango has no PS output support
of its own, we snarfed code from PAPS to render fonts as beziers as an
interim solution.  We hope to be able to use PDFlib for better output, or
at least make the standard fonts be output using PS fonts instead.
However, nobody has had the time to do either of these yet.

-Lars

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