Re: Don't understand PS <-> gnomeprint - More

On 08 Jun 2004 15:14:22 -0600
"Andreas J. Guelzow" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 14:35, John Coppens wrote:
> > Me again - no solution yet, more strangeness:
> > 
> > Please correct me if I'm wrong - I've seen a remark somewhere 'To get
> > a Postscript manual to understand gnome-print use', so I'm following
> > this advice.
> 
> Have a look at the source:
> gnome_print_setrgbcolor does not do anything if the current colour is
> already equal to the requested colour.
> 
> If the colour is different it changes the colour of the current context.
> 
> Andreas

Hi Andreas.

Ok - didn't know about the colors... 

I still have a strange item: Why is the first string generated much larger
than the following strings? But, to make it stranger, this only happens
when seen through gv. When I print it, from gv, all is well...

I never call scalefont, still, the first gets 12 point, then the next 2
point:

--------------
q
q
[1.73566e-16 2.83465 -2.83465 1.73566e-16 139.735 454.252]cm
(GnomeUni-Fujiyama2Plain) cvn FF 12 F
0.745 0.561 0 rg
0 0 m
(\40\36\41)
[6.93457 0 3.46875 0 0 0] xyshow
Q
Q
q
q
[1.73566e-16 2.83465 -2.83465 1.73566e-16 174.094 454.252]cm
(GnomeUni-Fujiyama2Plain) cvn FF 2 F
0.745 0.561 0 rg
0 0 m
(\40\36\42)
[1.15576 0 0.578125 0 0 0] xyshow
Q
Q
---------------

Again, on actual print to paper, all sizes are good. I guess this to be a
gv problem - though only the screen part?

Thanks,
John