Re: Pstricks

2006-09-04 Thread Lars Clausen
Michael Duelli sagde: > Hi Rob, > > you are right, the MetaPost plugin is pretty cool and I got to admit > that I have neither tried it before nor had MetaPost installed on my > computer. > > Though this lowers my pressure to create an improved pstricks > plugin, I am still interested in it. > > I

PGF Plugin in Dia 0.95-1 (Windows)

2006-09-04 Thread Thorsten Hehn
Hi, I use Dia 0.95-1 (Windows XP) and I wonder why I can't find the PGF export filter? A friend installed the Linux version of Dia 0.95-1 and there the PGF plugin is available. He got nice Latex Text to work with this filter, so I hope it is also available in the Windows version of Dia! Greets

Re: Pstricks / Export Test Case

2006-09-04 Thread Michael Duelli
Hi, I finally put all my test cases together in one big test case. The dia file is attached. IMHO, I got everything dia can do. If someone knows better or missing test cases, please add them!! I have to admit that I am right now really using metapost for all my figures which contain latex stuff.

Re: Pstricks / Export Test Case

2006-09-04 Thread Rob McDonald
Some things are pretty subtle to pick up in a test case, you may want to try to incorporate them. Changing the font, making sure all the fonts work. I remember having trouble setting the font size exactly as I wanted it. We changed some code to get it very close, but I usually go into the *.mp f

Re: Installation problems DIA

2006-09-04 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, James McNamara wrote: > I have downloaded and installed DIA and receive this error message when > trying to launch the programme; > > "This application has failed to start because libgtk-win32-2.0-0.dll was > not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem." D

Re: Pstricks / Export Test Case

2006-09-04 Thread Thorsten Hehn
I exported some dotted lines with several segment lengths with Metapost and compiled the .mp file using mptopdf. With the default segment length of 1.00, it is not possible to observe differences between the dotted and a solid line in the resulting .pdf file when setting the zoom factor to 20