Re[2]: 0.91 version and EPS/PDF problems

[Alan G Isaac <aisaac american edu>]

> On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Rodrigo Souza de Castro wrote:
>> I have some diagrams saved in .dia format that I used in a
>> dissertation. Up to 0.90 version, I used to export it to EPS format,
>> and convert it to PDF using ps2pdf program, which worked just
>> fine. Nevertheless, it seems that 0.91 version (Debian sid package)
>> introduced some problems in this process. Exporting to EPS still works
>> and it looks fine in gv and other viewers, but the EPS output isn't
>> the same as 0.90 version or olders, in particular regarding font
>> definitions. For this reason, when I convert it to PDF, the fonts are
>> very ugly (they aren't scalable nor type 1), thus I can't use these
>> files in a PDF presentation, for example. Is this a bug or have I
>> missed something when exporting these diagrams? Let me know if you
>> need a more details.


On Sat, 07 Jun 2003 04:14:07 -0500 Lars Clausen <lrclause@cs.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> This is a known problem that is due to the early adoption of Pango.
> Instead of actually outputting font defs, we convert each character into a
> shape using code from paps.  Once pangopdf is usable, we'd *love* to use
> that for both PS and PDF output, but doing PS output ourselves is a lot of
> work that we'd rather use on Dia-related things.  Sorry about the PDF
> problems (I've had it hit me myself), but it's an interim solution.


Given that Rodrigo was happy through 0.90 in this regard,
as I was, it seems that it is important to maintain the
ability not to include font definitions in EPS files.
In fact, this is the output that I almost always want.

Cheers,
Alan Isaac