[gl2ps] Re: an update

[Christophe Geuzaine]

Prabhu Ramachandran wrote:
>>>>>>"CG" == Christophe Geuzaine <geuzaine at acm.caltech.edu> writes:
> 
> 
>     CG> Micha Bieber wrote:
>     >>> From the PDF spec:
> [snip]
>     >> After inspecting ghostscript and pdftex sources regarding font
>     >> selection rules and substitution I came to the conclusion to
>     >> limit the use to the fonts above. Any application should be
>     >> able to use this sort of files. Everything more is higher magic
>     >> and IMO beyond the scope of gl2ps
> 
>     CG> I completely agree.
> 
> OK, that is fine by me too.  I plan on doing something like this for
> the vtkGL2PSExporter.
> 
> if (gl2ps != NULL) {
>    if (gl2ps->format == GL2PS_PDF) {
>       // replace Arial with Helvetica
>       // handle fonts to use standard ones only.
>    }
>    else {
>       // do existing stuff since that works for other formats.
>    }
> }
> 
> I also tested the fonts that Micha was suggesting and they all work
> great!  Let me know if you see anything wrong in the above.
> 

Why not add a function in vtk (in your wrapper class?) to do the name
conversion in all cases? I think it might be a good idea to stick to the
standard names with regular PostScript output, too.

Just my 2 cents ;-)

Christophe

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Christophe A. Geuzaine
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