Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!sics.se!sics.se!jw From: jw@sics.se (Johan Widen) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: fix to font cacheing in ralpage postscript viewer Message-ID: <1990Sep14.095925.11906@sics.se> Date: 14 Sep 90 09:59:25 GMT References: <1990Aug21.002853.14831@sics.se> Sender: news@sics.se Distribution: comp Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista Lines: 36 In-Reply-To: juha@tds.kth.se's message of 13 Sep 90 13:22:40 GMT >>>>> In article , juha@tds.kth.se (Juha Sarlin) writes: juha> In article <1990Aug21.002853.14831@sics.se>, jw@sics.se (Johan Widen) writes: jw> It turned out that there was a problem with user defined fonts, at least jw> they did not work for me. I "fixed" the problem by turning off the caching jw> of the user defined fonts (in ShowUser() in font.c). juha> The error seems to be in the postscript function loaddiskcache. juha> When a font is missing both OriginalName and FontName a temporary juha> function 'name' doesn't become defined, but it is used anyway. I have now made a number of fixes to ralpage, and have also integrated some considerable improvements from other people. Two fairly severe bugs remain to be fixed (1: positioning of X Window fonts is sometimes very bad. 2: there is something that looks like a rounding error in the stroke operator, lines are sometimes displayed much thinner than they are supposed to be), but I hope to be able to deal with them within a few days. After that I will clean up, write a little installation documentation and make a new release available. Two things that will not be supported in the next release: Adobe type 1 fonts Postscript files produced on Macintosh Fixes for these problems are solicited. (They are not bugs, just a lack of features.) I also plan to make an alpha release available within a couple of days. This will lack fixes for the two severe bugs I mentioned above. -- Johan Widen SICS, PO Box 1263, S-164 28 KISTA, SWEDEN Internet: jw@sics.se Tel: +46 8 752 15 32 Ttx: 812 61 54 SICS S Fax: +46 8 751 72 30