Patrick,
I am able to use monospaced fonts (eg. courier) in StarOffice5.1, but
I have installed a zillion True Type fonts on my system, and StarOffice
sees all of them. Why not obtain some monospaced True Type fonts and do
that?
John Craig
patrick wrote:
> I am having a HELL of a time with what should be really simple
> graphics work.
>
> I have a text file containing aligned text (scientific data),
> that is, it is essentially ascii. I need to annotate this
> text with various graphics and enclose some of the text in
> colored or shaded boxes.
>
> I have Killustrator, tgif, staroffice, and xpaint. NONE of
> these apps can handle this SIMPLE task. Killustrator only
> accepts *.kil format files and will not import text. Staroffice
> is essentially useless because it can't properly format the
> text - because it doesn't have any monospaced fonts available
> (what's up with that?!). tgif will accept ps, eps, and a few
> other formats, and it is this app that I have been fighting
> with all day. I THOUGHT it was going to work but it ends up
> screwing up the output so as to make the app useless. The
> problem:
>
> I had a simple text file that NO graphics app can import or
> use. I had to open it in netscape and print it to a file
> in postscript format. I then used pstoedit to convert the
> ps file into a native tgif *.obj file. I can now open up
> the file in tgif and on the screen it looks great. I can
> even annotate the text and create boxes, etc. When it comes
> time to print, however, the printer output is not what is
> on the screen. I may have a box on the screen properly
> drawn around certain text on the screen, but the printer
> output has the box in a different, slightly offset position.
>
> This is a serious flaw...you cannot trust the screen image
> to match what the printer produces. In addition, though the
> text looks to be nicely placed on the page on the screen,
> the position of the text on the printer output has little
> bearing to the image. Instead of being centered, the text
> is packed up nice and tight to the top of the paper with
> some text cutoff as a result.
>
> Basically, I can't find any graphics tools for linux that
> can handle really simple graphics work.
>
> IS THERE ANY graphics app available for linux that can
> actually import ascii text (not just ps, not eps, not latex,
> etc) and have the graphics and placement on the screen
> actually match reality when you print?
>
> This is a serious problem for me in being able to use
> linux. I am close to the point of having to do serious
> writing and publishing work on windows as a result of
> this.
>
> Please tell me there is another way.
>
> patrick
>
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