Hi Dave, On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, David R. Morrison wrote:
> Since you think the problem may be upstream, I've restored the old versions > of the xfig and transfig packages (under a new name). After running > fink selfupdate-cvs, you'll need to remove both xfig and transfig, and > then you can install the new transfig323 and xfig323 packages. > > -- Dave thanks for this...I compiled and have tested for about 15 minutes with the (now rebuilt) fig that xfig 3.2.4 destroyed. It is certainly more stable, and I haven't managed to make it do much wrong except with the few really dodgy eps files that I already stopped using (no crashes though, just problems displaying and exporting them). One of the final things 3.2.4 did to me was to incorrectly resize (just slightly) some of the imported eps files when I clicked on the "use original size" button. It made them maybe 5% larger that they should have been to judge from the last time I tried that tab on them. I didn't get this in 3.2.3 (but then I didn't get it in 3.2.4 most of the time). It also messed up resizing and aspect ratios if the eps was rotated then resized. This is a problem in 3.2.3 too, though there is a sequence of resizing/reaspecting that will get what you want if you try hard. This is all with gs8, BTW. Not all eps files seem to cause problems, but the ones that consistently did were built with latex and dvips with the -E flag (and of course gs8). It does have one problem...when it starts up it complains (multiple times for different font sizes) that Can't load font -adobe-avantgarde-demi-o-normal--84-*-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-* trying -b&h-lucida-bold-i-normal-sans-84-*-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-* I think this is just display fonts, since the exported pdf looks OK (and it manages to expost postscript properly without the "landscape bug" too). Whatever the source of the problems, I do look forward to them being fixed, 3.2.4 has a nice new feature of "greyed out" inactive layers, that lets me put in guidelines for alighing stuff without accidently selecting it... BTW, I'm now offline for two weeks, but happy to test further once I return... thanks, -- Viv ------------------------------------------------ Dr Viv Kendon [EMAIL PROTECTED] QOLS tel: 020 7594 7746 Blackett Laboratory Imperial College London ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
