[3915] in SIPB bug reports
xfig questions ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Wed Jul 14 09:08:08 1993
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 93 09:08:02 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@gza.com>
To: vgeorge@athena.mit.edu
Cc: bug-sipb@athena.mit.edu, vgeorge@athena.mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9307140122.AA21168@arjun.MIT.EDU> (vgeorge@Athena.MIT.EDU)
From: vgeorge@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 93 21:22:46 EDT
I use xfig on an RS/6000. When using the NewCentuarySchlbk-bold (and
seveal other fonts) at (point) sizes greater than 34, xfig protests
and displays only size 34. (Prints the right size, however.) Bit of
a nuisance since X11 does NOT display what will be printed. Any way
out for such large size fonts?
We don't have xfig compiled to use scalable fonts (I don't even know
which, if any, of the X servers on Athena workstations will support
scalable fonts), so it can only display the font sizes the X server
supports. When it can't find an exact font size match, it falls back
on the best it can do.
When the next version of xfig comes out, maybe I'll try compiling with
with scalable fonts and see what happens. I don't really have the
time to do it before then, but you can feel free if you want to
(sources are in /afs/sipb/project/sipbsrc/src/xfig).
Second, how does one convert a postscript file to eps file if one does
not know postscript programming? I have read /mit/postscript/FAQ.
Unfortunately, I do not know how to use bounding box. Is there a
program that would input PS and output EPS?
I can't answer this question. Perhaps someone else on the bug-sipb
list can.
--> Jonathan Kamens
Athena volunteer user consultant
Member, Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
jik@GZA.COM
