[Scribus] Character-by-character placement in PDF

[Craig Bradney]

On Thursday 20 October 2005 09:37, Bart Alberti wrote:
> > Gregory Pittman wrote:
> > > Craig Ringer wrote:
> > >> Gregory Pittman wrote:
> > >>> > > I do quite a bit with LaTeX, but for archiving
>
> purposes I
>
> > > just keep the .tex file; it has everything I need for
>
> that purpose.
>
> > Absolutely. That makes perfect sense for archival.
> >
> > I don't necessarily think it'd be reasonable to expect to
>
> be able to
>
> > send your .tex file to a printer and have them deal with
>
> making it into
>
> > a PDF though - they'd need all the fonts and images, any
>
> macro packages
>
> > you're using, etc. ick. Archival is a very different thing
>
> to submission
>
> > to a printer, and has different requirements. That's my
>
> point.
>
>
> Nobody has mentioned that dvi was supposed to be the 'device
> independent printer standard.
> How about sla 2 latex (both being basically text tag
> systems). Surely xml is a subset of sgml? Is there a dtd for
> Scribus?

No, not until the new format is completely implemented. Work on this will 
*start* in 1.3.2cvs after we finish the rewrite of the plugin system for 
loading and saving of docs. The final format may not be complete until late 
into 1.3.x.

Craig
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