Re: Text size very large when converting from PDF to ipe?
elwood151 <elwood151-S0/[email protected]>
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Thank you, Otfried for your quick reply:
>The simple way, of course, is to say "Select all" (Ctrl+A), and then
>click "normal" in the text size selector. This will change all text to
>normal size.
Did you try that out?
If I do that, the text gets even bigger than it is before. :-(
The software can also export SVG, but at least in a first attempt I did not
manage the conversion with svgtoipe. I'll try again and report the results
here.
Kind regards
Martin
Otfried Cheong-4 wrote:
>
> On 07/19/2011 12:29 PM, elwood151 wrote:
>> 3) I have to add \usepackage[ngerman]{babel} in the preamble and then can
>> compile latex.
>>
>> The 2 screenshots I've added show the state before and after the compile,
>> and the font size is extremely big compared to the graphics.
>
> It seems that printing to PDF does not set a reasonable font size like
> "11 point", but instead it sets "1 point" and then scales the text by a
> factor 11. Since the Latex fonts you are using do not have a 1-point
> size, they use the smallest size they have and then magnify by 11 times.
>
> Converting PDF text to Ipe text isn't easy, as Latex has many
> restrictions on font size.
>
>> Is there a way to scale down all font "elements" in the ipe file to
>> "normal"
>> size (easily)?
>> Is there a better way to convert the pdf to ipe to have a reasonable font
>> size directly?
>
> It might work better if you had a better way to create a PDF file from
> your graphics. The statistics software cannot save in a readable
> format? (SVG or FIG would be useful intermediate formats.)
>
> The simple way, of course, is to say "Select all" (Ctrl+A), and then
> click "normal" in the text size selector. This will change all text to
> normal size.
>
> Cheers,
> Otfried
>
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