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Hello Font Enthisiasts,

 Earlier I asked why Windows 3.1 blocks out as many as 24 characters in the 
128-255 range of a 8 bit coded font when I port it from Mac to Windows.
I got excellent help from Berthold Horn, who suggested that this problem
was caused by Windows because it re-encodes the font to the ANSI encoding
vector. Berthold also suggested that I get the Font Utilities Package from
Y&Y, and reprocess the PFB and PFM files such that the Font's "native" 
encoding vector is used instead of the Window's Default ANSI encoding vector.
I got the above package (cost US$75) and reprocessed my files, and installed
them under ATM2.0. The problem was solved as expected. For the interest of 
other users, I am summarizing below the steps I have gone through to solve 
this problem:

a) Produced the PC compatible AFM and PFB files through Fontographer 3.2,
   using the Mac Encoding Vector.

b) Ported the above files to PC, after running them through the Apple File 
   Exchange utility on Mac.

c) Ran the AFMtoPFM utility (with flags -v -d -s) on the AFM file to create 
   the PFM (Printer Metric File).

d) Ran the REENCODE utility (with flags -v -c=MAC ) on the PFB file to 
   reprocess it to use the MAC Encoding Vector. The file MAC.VEC, used
   in the above process is supplied by Y&Y on its utilities diskette.
   This file contains the Mac Encoding Vector.

e) Installed the PFM and PFB files thus processed under ATM2.0. Now I
   can display all the Chars in the Font on the screen and print them 
   on a Postscript printer. SUCCESS!!!!

	Finally, it is a pleasant to task to thank Bethold K.P. Horn for his
invaluable help and thank Y&Y for sending the Font Utilities Package promptly.
For those who are interested, the Address of Y&Y is: 

Y&Y, 106 Indian Hill, Carlisle, MA 01741, USA
(508) 371-3286 (Voice), and (508)371-2004 (Fax)

Regards,
K.Desikachary,
AECL Research. 


				Appendix

To make this message comprehensive, below I list all the characters in Mac's 
Font that were blocked out by Windows (I have all the slots from 128-255 
populated, except for the code 202, which corresponds to nonblank space char 
on Mac). 

Code Char Name    Code   Char Name       Code  Char Name       Code Char Name
128  Adieresis    154    odieresis       185   pi              222  fi
129  Aring        157    ugrave          188   ordamasculine   240  apple
138  adieresis    158    ucircumflex     189   Omega           253  hungarumlaut
141  ccedilla     160    dagger          190   ae              254  ogonek
142  eacute       166    paragraph       208   endash          
143  egrave       178    lessequal       215   lozenge
144  ecircumflex  179    greaterequal    221   guilsingright

	The above chars are all blocked out by Windows 3.1. Windows 3.0 blocks
out the followinfg 4 additional chars:

Code Char Name    Code   Char Name       Code  Char Name       Code Char Name
136  agrave       152    ograve          173   notequal        175  Oslash