Newbie Question: Text expressions?

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2 total messages Started by David Frier Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:10

#1093

Author: David Frier
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:10

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I am hoping the members of this group can help out with a postscript
newbie question.

I have a need (for reasons too hilarious to go into here) to
post-process Postscript output files from an application before they
go to print.  What I need to do is find a certain byte value (0xBA)
and change it to print as a Registered Trademark symbol.  I think the
best way to do this is to insert an escape sequence into the operand
for the ( ) show command such that the magic byte becomes a
'registered.'

I am having the devil's own time finding the right reference to how
this would be constructed.

As a follow-up question, since I obviously need it, where o where is a
decent online PS tutorial???

Thanks!

Re: Newbie Question: Text expressions?

#1094

Author: David Frier
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:27

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I should clarify.  What I am looking for is how to insert a character from the 
font BY NAME into an otherwise literal string, because the desired character 
happens not to be in the symbolset selected.


David Frier wrote:
> I am hoping the members of this group can help out with a postscript
> newbie question.
> 
> I have a need (for reasons too hilarious to go into here) to
> post-process Postscript output files from an application before they
> go to print.  What I need to do is find a certain byte value (0xBA)
> and change it to print as a Registered Trademark symbol.  I think the
> best way to do this is to insert an escape sequence into the operand
> for the ( ) show command such that the magic byte becomes a
> 'registered.'
> 
> I am having the devil's own time finding the right reference to how
> this would be constructed.
> 
> As a follow-up question, since I obviously need it, where o where is a
> decent online PS tutorial???
> 
> Thanks!
>

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