On Friday 04 August 2006 21:14, Curtis Osterhoudt wrote: > I'm not trying to side-track this discussion, but there's a bit of > an issue I've had with XFig itself (before I incorporate its figures > into LyX, which works fabulously). I can start XFig so that all NEW > text has the "special" flag and LaTeX fonts. However, if I want to > edit a file in XFig which has been created elsewhere (I often produce > plots in .eps format in, say, Mathematica, then use pstoedit to turn > it into XFig format), the fonts, of course, don't have these special > flags. I have written a Mathematica program to correctly set these > flags in the XFig files, but one has to have Mathematica!. So my > question is: > > Is there a simple program to set these things (special flag, > LaTeX fonts, perhaps some nice feature like > scale-fonts-to-60%-of-original-size)? Is there some switch in > pstoedit that I'm missing? Or is there a simple regex way from bash? > I'll eventually get another way figured out; it's not a pressing > concern.
The XFig format is a pretty simple text format. I've once written a small script (in Perl I think) which scales an image without changing the font size. (XFig does also change the font size when one scales an image.) It shouldn't be hard to write a script which does what you want. I've attached my script to give you a starting point. Regards, Ingo
scale_fig.pl
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pgpiIoABPg7aj.pgp
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