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From: sreenath
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:44

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I have a large embedded font in postscript with over 16000 glyphs in the Type 42 or Type 1 format. To be able to display all the characters, I am creating re-encoded fonts from this font with different encoding vectors. But I find that when I create the 33rd reencoded font, with some RIPs like Adobe distiller, Xerox Phaser etc. I get the following error :
%%[ Error: limitcheck; OffendingCommand: definefont; ErrorInfo: Encoding --nostringval-- ]%%. In other words, I am practically not able to have an embedded Type 1 or Type 42 font with more than 8192 glyphs. What is causing the limitation on these RIPs? I was not able to find any message on the internet that talks about this kind of a problem.

I tested this on Windows-XP platform and Adobe Acrobat Distiller 6.0. It will be great if someone knows about this and atleast can share what is happening here.

Thanks in Advance,
Sreenath

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