On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 19:22, John Coppens wrote: > On 08 Jun 2004 15:14:22 -0600 > "Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow taliesin ca> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 14:35, John Coppens wrote: > > > Me again - no solution yet, more strangeness: > > > > > > Please correct me if I'm wrong - I've seen a remark somewhere 'To get > > > a Postscript manual to understand gnome-print use', so I'm following > > > this advice. > > > > Have a look at the source: > > gnome_print_setrgbcolor does not do anything if the current colour is > > already equal to the requested colour. > > > > If the colour is different it changes the colour of the current context. > > > > Andreas > > Hi Andreas. > > Ok - didn't know about the colors... > > I still have a strange item: Why is the first string generated much larger > than the following strings? But, to make it stranger, this only happens > when seen through gv. When I print it, from gv, all is well... > > I never call scalefont, still, the first gets 12 point, then the next 2 > point: > > -------------- > q > q > [1.73566e-16 2.83465 -2.83465 1.73566e-16 139.735 454.252]cm > (GnomeUni-Fujiyama2Plain) cvn FF 12 F > 0.745 0.561 0 rg > 0 0 m > (\40\36\41) > [6.93457 0 3.46875 0 0 0] xyshow > Q > Q > q > q > [1.73566e-16 2.83465 -2.83465 1.73566e-16 174.094 454.252]cm > (GnomeUni-Fujiyama2Plain) cvn FF 2 F > 0.745 0.561 0 rg > 0 0 m > (\40\36\42) > [1.15576 0 0.578125 0 0 0] xyshow > Q > Q > --------------- > > Again, on actual print to paper, all sizes are good. I guess this to be a > gv problem - though only the screen part? Interesting postscript code. How did you generate it with gnomeprint? They both should print in approximately the same size, so the difference ought to be a gv problem. What happens when you send the postscript code directly to a postscript printer? Andreas > > Thanks, > John -- Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow Dept. of Mathematical & Computing Sciences Concordia University College of Alberta
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