Re: font scaling

["Jon A. Solworth" <solworth parsys cs uic edu>]

Vaclav,
	I use dia for pdflatex (which uses .pdf) graphics and
you can also use it for latex to produces .ps.  After extensive
experimentation, I found the best way was to export to fig
format and then have fig produce the .pdf and .pdftex_t files.

	Attached is a small script to produce the files, ie
type dia2pdftex name.dia and it will produce name.pdf and name.pdftex_t.

Jon


On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 13:15, Vaclav Smidl wrote:
> Hi all,
> first, thanks for a great software, I used to draw diagrams in xfig, but dia 
> is definitely more suitable for what I need.
> 
> However, I still have troubles producing a reasonable file to include in 
> Latex.
> If I am right, there are basically 4 export filters I can use:
> (i) pstricks, (ii) metapost, (iii) eps Latin-1, and (iv) eps Pancho.
> 
> I have tried all of them and I got 4 significantly different results.
> (i) pstricks: fonts are at typed using default latex font without any scaling
> 
> I have got the impression that the command \setfont{} in the pstricks filter, 
> is not used at all. I mean, the empty command is used.
> In Dia FAQ, there is a line:
>  "unless you have a PSTricks with this functionality implemented"
> I was trying to find a pstricks with defined \setfont but I failed.
> Is there any such version?
> 
> (ii) metapost, scale of the fonts is way too big if _scale_ in the Page_setup 
> dialog is not 100%, even then, sometimes, trivial changes in the document 
> trigers change of the font scaling to 2x bigger, etc.
> (BTW, ellipse looks awful in this export)
> 
> (iii), (iv) does not produce formulas, but especially the Pancho variant is 
> close to what I see in Dia.
> 
> Did I miss something, or should I fill a bug report?
> 
> All this seems to be related to scaling of the whole document.
> What are the basic units "1" for the grid? 
> I like the idea that everything is relative to that measure, but I can not 
> figure out, to what it is relative. Grid "1" with 100% scaling gives about 15 
> horizontal grid point per A4 page. It seem to me like a very coarse grid...
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Vasek
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