[Scribus] Strange PostScript character placement

Franz Schmid Franz.Schmid
Sat Aug 20 15:59:51 CEST 2005


Phil Hughes schrieb:
> I have been looking at the PostScript produced by a person doing
> some tests with Scribus 1.3.0CVS. I see each individual character
> being placed rather than the text being output as a string. For
> example, here is " is?".
>     gs
>     276.364 -39.704 tr
>     /space 0 0 0 0 0 1 shg
>     gr
>     /Fo0 12 se
>     gs
>     1 -54.104 tr
>     /i 0 0 0 0 0 1 shg
>     gr
>     /Fo0 12 se
>     gs
>     4.492 -54.104 tr
>     /s 0 0 0 0 0 1 shg
>     gr
>     /Fo0 12 se
>     gs
>     9.724 -54.104 tr
>     /question 0 0 0 0 0 1 shg
>     gr
> 
> I am using a PostScript font (/Fo0 /Utopia-Regular findfont
> definefont pop) and, well, I am confused. Is this "a feature", am I
> doing something obviously wrong or do I need to pull out my
> remaining hair?
> 
> Thanks.
This is correct, as its possible that every character might have
different formatting (Colour, Position relative to baseline, etc..)

Franz Schmid




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