gramps

Bernd,

Thanks for the information. Can you point me to the HowTO? We will not
be able to use the matlab example due to copyright issues, so I'd like
to see what the HowTO has to say. If we can use this, I can integrate it
in, if not, I'll have to see about developing a similar, non-copyrighted
patch.

Don

On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 03:50, Bernd Hahnebach wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I hope this is the right place to post. I use german version of gramps. 
> I like the output format postscript of reports. The special german 
> letters are not shown in any of my psviewer. I don't think this is a 
> problem of my system. The special letters are written in the strings of 
> the ps-file (just opened *.ps in an editor as they are not unicode.) but 
> not shown in the ps-viewer. I attached gramps generated *.ps of a really 
> small data base  (actually one person).
> 
> As there are some other translation of gramps to european languages I'm 
> wondering nobody claimed about (accept english most european languages 
> have special letters).
> 
> I don't have a glue about code of ps-file but was playing a bit and 
> found two solutions by copy paste:
> 
> The first one I found in a german HowTo in the internet:
> 
> hugo@...> diff ancestor_chart.ps 
> ancestor_chart-new1.ps
> 6a7,21
>  > %%BeginProlog
>  > %
>  > % change encoding to ISO8859-1  -  reiner@...
>  > %
>  > % <fontname> ISOfindfont => <font>
>  > %
>  > /ISOfindfont {
>  >     dup 100 string cvs (ISO-) exch concatstrings cvn exch
>  >     findfont dup maxlength dict begin
>  >       { 1 index /FID ne {def}{pop pop} ifelse } forall
>  >       /Encoding ISOLatin1Encoding def
>  >       currentdict
>  >     end definefont
>  > } def
>  > %%EndProlog
> 34c49
> < /Helvetica findfont 9 scalefont setfont
> ---
>  > /Helvetica ISOfindfont 9 scalefont setfont
> 
> --> any string of *.ps file with special letters needs ISOfindfont 
> instead of findfont
> 
> 
> The second solution I copied from a matlab generated postscript. It's 
> the one I'm currently using, because I only need to copy the lines.
> 
> hugo@...> diff ancestor_chart.ps 
> ancestor_chart-new2.ps
> 6a7,15
>  > %%BeginProlog
>  > /ISOF {
>  >       dup findfont dup length 1 add dict begin {
>  >               1 index /FID eq {pop pop} {def} ifelse
>  >       } forall /Encoding ISOLatin1Encoding def
>  >       currentdict end definefont
>  >    } def
>  > /Helvetica ISOF
>  > %%EndProlog
> 
> 
> Bernd
-- 
Don Allingham <dallingham@...>
GRAMPS - Open Source Genealogy

Don,
The HowTo is written in german.

Main page of the how to:
http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/German-HOWTO.html

the copied code:
8.4 Generating PostScript
The displayed text may contain special german letters (Umlaute), if the 
following function was called before.

http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/German-HOWTO-8.html#ss8.4

Bernd

Don Allingham schrieb:

>Bernd,
>
>Thanks for the information. Can you point me to the HowTO? We will not
>be able to use the matlab example due to copyright issues, so I'd like
>to see what the HowTO has to say. If we can use this, I can integrate it
>in, if not, I'll have to see about developing a similar, non-copyrighted
>patch.
>
>Don
>
>On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 03:50, Bernd Hahnebach wrote:
>  
>
>>hi,
>>
>>I hope this is the right place to post. I use german version of gramps. 
>>I like the output format postscript of reports. The special german 
>>letters are not shown in any of my psviewer. I don't think this is a 
>>problem of my system. The special letters are written in the strings of 
>>the ps-file (just opened *.ps in an editor as they are not unicode.) but 
>>not shown in the ps-viewer. I attached gramps generated *.ps of a really 
>>small data base  (actually one person).
>>
>>As there are some other translation of gramps to european languages I'm 
>>wondering nobody claimed about (accept english most european languages 
>>have special letters).
>>
>>I don't have a glue about code of ps-file but was playing a bit and 
>>found two solutions by copy paste:
>>
>>The first one I found in a german HowTo in the internet:
>>
>>hugo@...> diff ancestor_chart.ps 
>>ancestor_chart-new1.ps
>>6a7,21
>> > %%BeginProlog
>> > %
>> > % change encoding to ISO8859-1  -  reiner@...
>> > %
>> > % <fontname> ISOfindfont => <font>
>> > %
>> > /ISOfindfont {
>> >     dup 100 string cvs (ISO-) exch concatstrings cvn exch
>> >     findfont dup maxlength dict begin
>> >       { 1 index /FID ne {def}{pop pop} ifelse } forall
>> >       /Encoding ISOLatin1Encoding def
>> >       currentdict
>> >     end definefont
>> > } def
>> > %%EndProlog
>>34c49
>>< /Helvetica findfont 9 scalefont setfont
>>---
>> > /Helvetica ISOfindfont 9 scalefont setfont
>>
>>--> any string of *.ps file with special letters needs ISOfindfont 
>>instead of findfont
>>
>>
>>The second solution I copied from a matlab generated postscript. It's 
>>the one I'm currently using, because I only need to copy the lines.
>>
>>hugo@...> diff ancestor_chart.ps 
>>ancestor_chart-new2.ps
>>6a7,15
>> > %%BeginProlog
>> > /ISOF {
>> >       dup findfont dup length 1 add dict begin {
>> >               1 index /FID eq {pop pop} {def} ifelse
>> >       } forall /Encoding ISOLatin1Encoding def
>> >       currentdict end definefont
>> >    } def
>> > /Helvetica ISOF
>> > %%EndProlog
>>
>>
>>Bernd
>>    
>>