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Re: Xpost now has jpeg device

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In article <f73ef8f6-4dc1-445b-8f61-7b8ea24518d3@googlegroups.com>, 
lawrencedo99@gmail.com says...
> 
> On Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at 6:49:11 AM UTC+12, Markus Triska wrote:
> > My PostScript files often contain logic that is extremely tedious to
> > translate to SVG, and extremely easy to express in PostScript. Also, I
> > cannot recommend writing PDF by hand. Overall, from the alternatives you
> > have now mentioned, I still prefer the unwanted, really obsolete one.
> 
> I thought ?sombody must have written a PostScript-to-SVG translator?. And sure enough, there is pstoedit <http://www.pstoedit.net/>.
> 
> I just tried the Debian package version with one or two simple PostScript files. Seemed to work OK.


From a Stack Overflow question:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37883053/how-can-i-get-pstoedit-to-
handle-cid-type0c-fonts-as-text

It may not work too well with CIDFonts. Ghostscript still has a 
deprecated SVG output device, but as I recall the reason it was dropped 
is because of poor font support, we couldn't emit SVG text that worked 
very reliably (for more complex cases). If you want to experiment with 
it then you will need to build Ghostscript yourself, its no  longer 
built automatically (distributions may vary here).

I'm also led to believe (I don't know myself) that SVG consumers are 
even less good about font support than that provided by the 
documentation. We could, of course, degenerate text to vectors, but I 
think that was where this thread started.....


			Ken

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Xpost now has jpeg device luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2016-06-16 21:00 -0700
  Re: Xpost now has jpeg device Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-06-17 00:30 -0700
    Re: Xpost now has jpeg device luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2016-06-17 09:51 -0700
  Re: Xpost now has jpeg device Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2016-06-17 17:46 +0000
  Re: Xpost now has jpeg device Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at> - 2016-06-18 10:21 +0200
    Re: Xpost now has jpeg device Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-06-18 02:21 -0700
      Re: Xpost now has jpeg device Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at> - 2016-06-20 01:49 +0200
        Re: Xpost now has jpeg device Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-06-19 20:19 -0700
          Re: Xpost now has jpeg device Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at> - 2016-06-20 10:43 +0200
            Re: Xpost now has jpeg device Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-06-20 03:20 -0700
              Re: Xpost now has jpeg device Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at> - 2016-06-20 20:49 +0200
                Re: Xpost now has jpeg device Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-06-21 01:40 -0700
                Re: Xpost now has jpeg device ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2016-06-21 10:15 +0100
    Re: Xpost now has jpeg device luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2016-06-21 21:09 -0700

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