Phil Hughes schrieb: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 03:59:51PM +0200, Franz Schmid wrote: > >>Phil Hughes schrieb: >> >>>I have been looking at the PostScript produced by a person doing >>>some tests with Scribus 1.3.0CVS. I see each individual character >>>being placed rather than the text being output as a string. For >>>example, here is " is?". >>> gs >>> 276.364 -39.704 tr >>> /space 0 0 0 0 0 1 shg >>> gr >>> /Fo0 12 se >>> gs >>> 1 -54.104 tr >>> /i 0 0 0 0 0 1 shg >>> gr >>> /Fo0 12 se >>> gs >>> 4.492 -54.104 tr >>> /s 0 0 0 0 0 1 shg >>> gr >>> /Fo0 12 se >>> gs >>> 9.724 -54.104 tr >>> /question 0 0 0 0 0 1 shg >>> gr >>> >>>I am using a PostScript font (/Fo0 /Utopia-Regular findfont >>>definefont pop) and, well, I am confused. Is this "a feature", am I >>>doing something obviously wrong or do I need to pull out my >>>remaining hair? >>> >>>Thanks. >> >>This is correct, as its possible that every character might have >>different formatting (Colour, Position relative to baseline, etc..) > > > Possible, I agree but I see two problems here: > 1. A text-heavy document will end up being huge relative to > what is really there. > 2. This will make the document render slowly. > > I never looked before but is this the way it has always worked? Yes, it has been this way since the very first version.
Franz Schmid
