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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: makempy (pstoedit <-> gs) hangs
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:51:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46A5AF7D.5050707@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46A54C80.385.1004719@wwl.musensturm.de>

Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote:
> Hallo!
> 
>>> the following code let ghostscript fail.
>>> What is wrong her?
>>>
>>> Wolfgang
>>>
>>> \setupcolors  [state=start]
>>> \starttext
>>> \useMPlibrary[txt]
>>> \startlinecorrection
>>> \TightText{\ss\bf 123}{0cm}{3cm}{red}
>>> \stoplinecorrection
>>> \stoptext
>>> %
>>> %ConTeXt  ver: 2007.07.03 19:38 MKII
>>> %pstoedit: version 3.44 / DLL interface 108
>>> %GPL Ghostscript 8.57 (2007-05-11)
> 
> Don't know if this matters! But the temporary created pdf (input for 
> pstoedit) is a bit smaller then the string to render '123'. The 
> overshut of the round charakters '2' and '3' is cut.

try \ruledhbox{...} and you will observe similar effects, traditional 
tex has alimited number of heights and depths for fonts and glyphs 
themselves may have a practical boundingbox different from the tight 
fitting one; just add struts or enlarge the box

Hans

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-24  7:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.2215.1185128434.2368.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2007-07-23 22:49 ` Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
2007-07-24  7:51   ` Hans Hagen [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.1.1185789602.14300.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2007-07-30 12:30 ` Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
2007-07-30 13:03   ` Arthur Reutenauer
2007-07-30 13:46     ` luigi scarso
2007-07-30 15:54     ` George N. White III
2007-07-30 22:42   ` luigi scarso
     [not found] <mailman.2244.1185265633.2368.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2007-07-28 18:35 ` Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
2007-07-29 12:52   ` George N. White III
2007-07-29 23:37     ` Arthur Reutenauer
2007-07-20 23:19 Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
2007-07-22 13:03 ` Mojca Miklavec
2007-07-29 12:45   ` George N. White III

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