[Scribus] Strange PostScript character placement

[Franz Schmid]

Phil Hughes schrieb:
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 03:59:51PM +0200, Franz Schmid wrote:
> 
>>Phil Hughes schrieb:
>>
>>>I have been looking at the PostScript produced by a person doing
>>>some tests with Scribus 1.3.0CVS. I see each individual character
>>>being placed rather than the text being output as a string. For
>>>example, here is " is?".
>>>   gs
>>>   276.364 -39.704 tr
>>>   /space 0 0 0 0 0 1 shg
>>>   gr
>>>   /Fo0 12 se
>>>   gs
>>>   1 -54.104 tr
>>>   /i 0 0 0 0 0 1 shg
>>>   gr
>>>   /Fo0 12 se
>>>   gs
>>>   4.492 -54.104 tr
>>>   /s 0 0 0 0 0 1 shg
>>>   gr
>>>   /Fo0 12 se
>>>   gs
>>>   9.724 -54.104 tr
>>>   /question 0 0 0 0 0 1 shg
>>>   gr
>>>
>>>I am using a PostScript font (/Fo0 /Utopia-Regular findfont
>>>definefont pop) and, well, I am confused. Is this "a feature", am I
>>>doing something obviously wrong or do I need to pull out my
>>>remaining hair?
>>>
>>>Thanks.
>>
>>This is correct, as its possible that every character might have
>>different formatting (Colour, Position relative to baseline, etc..)
> 
> 
> Possible, I agree but I see two problems here:
>  1. A text-heavy document will end up being huge relative to
>     what is really there.
>  2. This will make the document render slowly.
> 
> I never looked before but is this the way it has always worked?
Yes, it has been this way since the very first version.

Franz Schmid