On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 16:09 +0200, Krzysztof Kościuszkiewicz wrote: > Hi All, > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 09:34:40AM -0400, Ales Hvezda wrote: > > [snip] > > > Hmm... ought to be possible to make it work, assuming the printer font > > > has that glyph. I didn't realise it was broken. From Ales's comments > > > about the the pango + cairo branch and printing, thought he implied > > > gschem could print the various characters it currently understands. > > > > > > > It does work for some of the characters, but not all. Rendering of > > unicode characters in gschem and then being able to print them (in PS) > > goes together. I can hear the whining right now if we support one but not > > the other. > > I did some tests on my linux box with pango 1.20.5 and cairo 1.6.4 > (combination backed by libfreetype2), and rendering to postscript works > fine for every combination of fonts I have tried. > > Of course results will depend on the library pango will use for font > handling, and the availability of fonts on each platform. > > The added benefit of using the same library for rendering, image export > and PS/PDF printing is less code and uniform look.
Pango + cairo can print these glyphs fine, but gEDA emits its own postscript. I'm not keen to remove that functionality, but it would be an option to make gschem print using cairo. > Regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
