evan_tech -- charchart

02:28 am, 18 May 05

charchart

"To decorate my area at work (I work on international search quality), I wanted to print out some nice, large Unicode charts. This program uses Cairo to render a set of codepoints to PNG, Postscript, or PDF."

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Unfortunately, I was thwarted at trying to print at 11x17. I learned a lot about CUPS, paper sizes ("tabloid", "ledger"), and a bit of Postscript tonight but I failed to get the poster-size printouts I want.

jwz	My experience with printing on Unix is: it's always faster to find a Mac and go sit in front of that instead. By an order of magnitude. Even if cars are involved.
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evan Y'know, I was actually running about looking for someone with a Windows computer. It didn't occur to me to try a Mac.

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ydna	Have you seen Ian Albert's similar attempt?
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evan	Yes, it inspired this. I wanted to control which subsets I showed. (And screen grabs? Man, I feel so sorry for the guy. This is only 341 lines of C, and that's with all of the user-friendly argument parsing.)
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sergent	Have you tried with http://directory.fsf.org/print/postscript/poster.html? I use this to print out big dot charts at work.
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sergent (mostly because it gives me an excuse to use the paper cutter)

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evan	I haven't, but I have considered the idea. Since I'm creating my PS/PDF "directly" it's easy for me to get poster-like effects in code (and that way I can make my cuts fall along character cell boundaries).
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evan	Y'know, I was actually running about looking for someone with a Windows computer. It didn't occur to me to try a Mac.
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sergent	(mostly because it gives me an excuse to use the paper cutter)
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