Re: gEDA: Slightly improved gschem postscript output

[Wojciech Kazubski <wk-at-NOSPAMire_dot_pw_dot_edu_dot_pl>]

> Hi all,
>
> 	I just checked in some changes to the postcript code in CVS.  The code
> now outputs a bare minimum of the DSC (Document Structuring Conventions)
> comments.  At the moment it emits the document creator, creation date,
> title, author, bounding box, and number of pages.  I have defaulted all
> those values to things I found in the environment.  The only `hack' at
> the moment is the bounding box.  It's set based on the paper size, and
> not by the actual extents of the marks made on the page. The function
> world_get_complex_bounds() looks like it will do the trick, but I don't
> want to re-do the scale calculations in f_print() again, as the logic
> looks somewhat complex.  I will look for a way to re-factor this code
> and come up with a strategy.  For now, whats in there seems to work okay
> in ghostview for both portrait and landscape. It also appears to select
> the page size appropriately.  This should fix most of the ps2pdf
> problems people are experiencing.
>
> Mike
> --------------------------------------------------
>                               Mike Jarabek
>                                 FPGA/ASIC Designer
>   http://www.istop.com/~mjarabek
> --------------------------------------------------
Have you seen my recent patches on printing UTF-8 and creating EPS files?
Could you test them?

Wojciech Kazubski