World: r3wp

hmm... preview.app has a funny way of detecting when to rotate the 
paper. if the first given text is rotated 90 degrees, it will rotate 
the paper, otherwise it will not. I wonder if this is standard behaviour?

oh, great, now I can't print Danish letters with PS

Starting to hit the inticancies of the postscript language?

geomol, seems postscript.r needs to be patched to convert the chars 
to octals to print them out

jaime, just need to figure out how to do it

(under a bit of time pressure)

geomol: http://www.sslug.dk/emailarkiv/prog/2002_09/msg00132.html
<--- this might be interesting

geomol, actually the entire thread is interesting

by inserting the code in postscript.r I can get the chars I want. 
works fine now, but you need to specify the fonts correctly from 
"HelveticaBold" to "HelveticaBold-ISOLatin1" instead.

(the code mentioned in the link)

Ok, I'll take a look...

geomol, I can upload what I did

Seems a bit complicated to get ISO-8859-1. What about other languages?

I don't know. strangely, I didn't need them :-)

I tried representing the chars with octals, but that didn't work. 
I don't know what I did wrong, but it would be a simpler solution

pdf does not support unicode fonts, and i guess the same might be 
true for ps... so good luck :)

is anyone working on higher level stuff for postscript.r? I'm going 
to work on a table generator

I'm semi-wondering about implementing text that flows from page to 
page with full justification.

about DRAW, I'm sure how fit it is for this yet. I had serious problems 
with it under Linux today (misalignment and crashes too)

well, if you have crashes, you need to report them.

Did I mention that I have three columns of text snaking up and down 
an A4 page?

if I could test it... wasn't on my machine and I couldn't get console 
output

that sounds interesting?

that was your runner labeling application?

the centering algorithm I wrote didn't work under Linux either

because of the stupid differences in font sizes

Hang on.

yes, I rewrote the preview to be done with VID. I lost anti alias, 
but gained proper centering

What you should be doing is writing a preview in draw, but have a 
postscript routine that does centering for you.

That would work.

yes it would

I suppose I should modify postscript.r some more

it would also be needed for proper paragraphs in tables

My aim is to get perfect postscript output .. and at least a rough 
approximation in draw.

yes, at least in a clear way to make sure that the postscript is 
like it should be: that centered output really is centered, font 
size is completely accurate and such

I would have continued to use pdf-maker except there's no easy way 
to flow text like this.

And with postscript, you can create your own fonts

I just think PDF Maker is a bit too hard to build layouts in

if the ones you need are not supported.

yes that's a problem. I will need OCR fonts at some point

Has anyone looked at the image format for postscript?

How easy would it be to convert rebol's image format to that needed 
for postscript?

haven't looked at it. some people say that it's "tricky"

I presume it is similar to the way images are handled in pdf ...

possibly, but it doesn't work properly in PDF Maker

Oh ?

I've created pdfs with jpegs .. and they seemed to be okay.

I've tried without luck. that's why I started doing barcodes as vectors

http://www.compkarori.com/images/test.pdf

is a page I created in pdf-maker a few years ago.