On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 09:36 +1030, Young, Robert wrote: > > I completely agree that text_line is required for GTK and export to PS, > PDF, bitmaps, etc. Users should be able to get reliable WYSYWIG export > for these types of formats where fonts can be embedded or rendered > directly. I'm of two minds on SVG... > > However, maybe I don't understand the complete picture here, but there > are always going to be issues with fonts when exporting to some formats, > like metapost. By forcing the exported output to be fitted to a box that > is the wrong size for the resulting font/typesetting algorithm (because > as you have said TeX has different typesetting to GTK), we are trying to > force a square peg in a round hole.
I am hoping that's mainly a question of understanding the algorithm well enough to tweak it to where the results are satisfactory. But that takes some work. > If we had a LaTex render, it would be a different story. No one has the > time to do one before 0.96 comes out. So my patch was aiming for > something that would work in most instances. Using text_line blows up on > equations, where as my proposed patch at least leaves the > right/centre/left alignment correct, and gets the odd text width wrong > (but within a couple of percent for sans, serif and monospace). I am > very keen to receive examples of where it doesn't work so that I can > improve it. Having it a little shorter rather than a little longer is in general better. I think we shall go with your patch for 0.96. -Lars _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia
