How to properly scale text in postscript conversion to pdf?

[philipbergwerf]

Hi all,

I have a question about Ghostscript postscript2pdf conversion. My setup is:

• drawing a drawing with text on the tkinter canvas
  
• exporting the drawing as postscript
  
• converting using ps2pdfwr or Ghostscript
  

During the conversion text scales a bit bigger causing the white background of the text to be too small for the text. Is there a way to calculate the difference in font-size? I did try to set the text to a smaller font-size when exporting but it is not a solution since the drawing itself can be in different scales. I am looking for some kind of documentation about the postscript conversion and why it chooses a bigger font-size? Maybe there is a way to correct it if I know the right factor?

Cheers, Philip

[Gribouillis]

Do you have an example postscript file that isn't well converted by ghostscript?

[philipbergwerf]

Do you have an example postscript file that isn't well converted by ghostscript?

In the zipfile a screenshot from the tkinter canvas and the result in postscript. I see the text scaling is already in the ps file...

[philipbergwerf]

Do you have an example postscript file that isn't well converted by ghostscript?

In the zipfile a screenshot from the tkinter canvas and the result in postscript. I see the text scaling is already in the ps file...

I found the answer, I overlooked a setting in the postscript named 'fontmap'.
I added fontmap='-*-Courier-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*' to the postscript function and now it works properly!