Re: Commit: bunch of PS fixes

From: Martin Sevior (msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Nov 09 2002 - 08:31:55 EST

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    On 8 Nov 2002, Dom Lachowicz wrote:

    > > I will investigate this as my first priority on Monday after I synch up
    > > with your changes.
    >
    > Thanks.
    >
    > > Some possibilities:
    > > 1.Some dimensions in the formatter are not scaling correctly (can check by
    > > setting to high and low zoom). Try running at 400%
    >
    > I'm assuming that this is the case, actually.
    >
    > > 3. Bugs in the XFT=> PS translation
    >
    > No, this isn't the case. The fonts get embedded just fine. The current
    > problem affects placing anything on the screen. This includes lines,
    > colored bacgrounds behind table cells, etc...
    >
    > > Anyway, I will check. I suggest we delay the release of tarballs and
    > > binaries until we know the scope of the problem. If it easy to fix, delay
    > > until it's fixed. If it's hard, release right away and warn people.
    >
    > Yeah, no problem so long as someone is going to look at this. I spent my
    > hours fixing all sorts of bug in the printing and HTML layer this
    > afternoon. I don't think that XFT printing worked at all in 1.1.0 (or
    > ever, for that matter, having looked at the code), so this is likely
    > already quite an improvement over previous versions.

    It would us if a windows developer or someone with a non-xft build could
    tell us the state of the printing on their platform. My investigations so
    far point to a bug somewhere in the fl*layout classes but I haven't found
    it yet.

    So windows/non-xft developers, what is printing from HEAD like on your
    platforms?

    Please try to print table as well as regular text.

    Thanks!

    Martin



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