Can anyone here have a look at this? I guess you know more than me about
PostScript.

What is the situation with post-script and RTL? Is the guy correct (see
attachment), I taught that it was possible to have RTL text in
postscript files, or is the problem elsewhere in this case?

Also, will Culmus fonts be usable? If you look at the source
Passepartout seems to predefine a basic font set. Look at:
./passepartout-0.2/src/fonts/fontinfo.cc

http://www.stacken.kth.se/project/pptout/doc.shtml

A very nice tool btw, it's a DTP tool using XML/XSL external files with
Unicode support. It seems to also support importing XHTML.

Thanks

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US> Hey, Thanks. Works fine. Sorry for missing the notice on the
US> front page about the patch.

Good!

 US> 1. Pass. crashed when I tried to import a plain text file, which
 US> I guess is not supported at all, not even through a default XML
 US> schema of some sort? I guess since your are referencing the file
 US> could be nice to have defaults for plain non-formated paragraphs.

Hm.  Yes, it would be rather simple to create a simple filter for
plain text files ...  Maybe in a comming relase ...

 US> 2. What about fonts? Does it pick up GNOME's fonts? How do
 US> decided what is the naming conventions? Tried "Arial" instead of
 US> "Avant Garde" in the sample XML from the manula, but I don't
 US> think it used it.

Since we produce postscript output, we currently only support
postscript fonts.  We have our own code for finding those (from whats
installed with gs and X11).

Hm.  Maybe "Avant Garde" isn't a free font, but a font we have access
to here at KTH.  In that case, we should change our samples to use
Nimbus Sans or something, thats distributed with ghostscript.

 US> 3. Also, I can see it supports Unicode. I take it RTL
 US> proper-alignment should be possible using XSL? I would like to
 US> test if it works with Hebrew.

RTL?  Since you talk about Hebrew I guess you mean Right To Left?  In
that case, nope, thats not supported (at least not yet).  Sorry.

 US> Seems like a very useful tool. How does it compare with Scribus
btw?

Scribus?  Hadn't heard of it before reading some comments at
gnomedesctop.org this morning ... 

>From a quick look at their webpage, the main difference seems to be
that Scribus uses Qt while Passepartout uses Gtk.  Also, Scribus seems
to be more mature as a project, with more advanced font handling, PDF
export (planned but not there yet in Passepartout), color separations,
etc ...

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