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 Text in Postscript
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| macbetho |
Posted on 16-04-2010 01:35
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Member Posts: 2 Joined: 16.04.10 |
Hi First of all congratulations on a great project. I am an old fan of Skencil and it is a pity that it is no longer developed; Sk1 seems like a great (and more than) replacement. When Skencil exported to postscript it saved text as text. sK1 seems to actually draw the letters (am I right?) Anyway although this is a minor difference, it is important when using the psfrag package in latex () I used to combine skencil and psfrag and I am not able to do this with sK1. It would be nice to have the option to save text as text when exporting to eps (or perhaps it is possible and I am missing something) Regards |
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| igor |
Posted on 16-04-2010 09:48
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 Super Administrator Posts: 219 Joined: 09.02.09 |
Hi, sK1 font system is fully rewritten and highly different from Skencil font routines. We have used ttf/otf font vs PS1 like in Skencil. So storing text as a real text in PS|PDF formats requires ttf/otf converting on the fly. Also Skencil supports latin-1 encoding only whereas sK1 uses raw Unicode. This feature is also not trivial for PS|PDF formats. Therefore on current development stage we export text into PS|PDF as Bezier curves. The primary application task is a correct printing output but not reusable PS|PDF files. Of course in future we will provide advanced text support. But this feature requires special release. Regards, Igor Novikov sK1 Project |
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| macbetho |
Posted on 17-04-2010 06:07
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Member Posts: 2 Joined: 16.04.10 |
Thus, It seems it might take a while until a sk1 release comes out with support for true text in eps. I was thinking of porting say the sketchlatex plugin to sk1. I have no prior experience with the plugin system of sk1 (or even skencil). So I when ahead and looked at the plugins that come with sk1. There is the regular polygon plugin that used to come with skencil in the sk1 installation but it I cant find it while using sk1. Also there is a fairly good documentation for writing plugins in skencil. How much of this docs can be used for writing sk1 plugins? Greetings |
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