[gl2ps] Regarding PDF fonts

Prabhu Ramachandran prabhu at aero.iitm.ernet.in
Fri Nov 7 18:09:03 CET 2003


>>>>> "MB" == Micha Bieber <krischnamurti at users.sourceforge.net> writes:

    MB> Hallo group, when I begun to write the PDF output, I had the
    MB> immediate impression that fonts in PDF are evil ...  E.g. you
    MB> have to include for the simplest kind of string position
[...]
    MB> In a nutshell - hornet's nest. The best solution is still to
    MB> use coupled tex/pdf output. But I'll see whether I can find a
    MB> solution for pure PDF strings without to contaminate the
    MB> library with too much font knowledge.

Great, thanks!

BTW, I tested the latest GL2PS release on Win32 and the earlier
warnings are all gone now.  The suggested "wb" fix for the
vtkGL2PSExporter also works perfectly and the PDFs generated on
Windows seem to render just fine, except for our favorite font problem
of course.

cheers,
prabhu