<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Anyway you may add to exported PDF any image, let say title.pdf created in other application.<div><br></div><div>m.s.</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>Jun 6, 2013 v 10:46 PM, Footleg <<a href="mailto:drfootleg@gmail.com">drfootleg@gmail.com</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Thanks Bruce, I just spotted this as I added a second piece of line label text and it came out a different size to the previous line label. It appears that the text resizes to fit the length of the line. So the only way to be certain of the size of the text is to use point labels.<div>
<br></div><div style="">Footleg</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 June 2013 20:39, Bruce <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bruce@tomo.co.nz" target="_blank">bruce@tomo.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Footleg<u></u><u></u></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">I used to have this figured out, but my
memory is a bit fuzzy and I cannot immediately find where it is described.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">It’s something like this I think.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Point label always gives you text of the
size you specify, at default character spacing.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Line label gives you text to fit the
length of the line. If the line is longer than is necessary for the
specified size (text height), then the characters are spaced out to fit the
line. If the line is too short, the text size is reduced (often by
non-standard amounts) so that the text will fit and metapost (or <u></u><u></u>tex<u></u><u></u>?) generate a message
saying that the text size is reduced (or at least it used to).<u></u><u></u></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">So, in effect, ‘line text’ can
never be relied upon to look the same as ‘point text’. Line
text that looks good at one scale, will of course be significantly stretched or
shrunk at another scale.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Ah ha I remember, I produced a dataset
specifically exploring text effects and trialing a text drawing convention that
I never got into established usage here. Perhaps it is time to dig it
out?<u></u><u></u></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Bruce<u></u><u></u></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
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<a href="mailto:therion-bounces@speleo.sk" target="_blank">therion-bounces@speleo.sk</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:therion-bounces@speleo.sk" target="_blank">therion-bounces@speleo.sk</a>] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Footleg<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Friday, 7 June 2013 12:35
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [Therion] Label point and
Label line default text sizes</span></font><u></u><u></u></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I just noticed that if I set text on a point of type Label, with the
option -text "Water Rift" -scale xl<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">and then set the same option on a line of type label, then I get
different size labels on my PDF. Is this intended? I had assumed the scale
options for text would generate the same size text whether I am placing it
using a label or a line?<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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