Re: Exporting With Text On Win32

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 2 Oct 2003, David Rasmussen wrote:
> I have made a diagram, that I want to export to some suitable format,
> so I can include the diagram in a word processing document made with
> Open Office. I have some problems:
>
> 1) The exported image looks fine, but all the text is missing. I also
> get the "compiled without libart/text" message when exporting. Is that
> the reason?

Yes, freetype2+fontconfig doesn't compile on Win32, so the libart renderer
for Win32 cannot do text.

> 2) Right now, I export to png, but it doesn't look as good when
> printed as when I print directly from dia. Is there any format that
> Open Office might be able to insert into a text document, that will
> preserve the quality of the diagram (some vector format, or...) ?

Maybe one of CGM, WMF, DXF, SVF can do it?

-Lars

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