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Article #1391Times Greek boldface/italic and Times vs Symbol
From: Jan Michael Rynning
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1989 17:38
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1989 17:38
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1) Are there any Greek boldface, italic, and boldface italic PostScript
fonts available, designed to match Times Roman?
2) Why are the characters in the Symbol font just similar to the ones in
the Times Roman font, and not identical to them? (At least, that's
the way things are on our Apple LaserWriter II NTX running PostScript
version 47.0.) The following program illustrates the differences.
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%!
/fontsize 30 def
/times /Times-Roman findfont fontsize scalefont def
/symbol /Symbol findfont fontsize scalefont def
/Hheight gsave times setfont newpath 0 0 moveto (H) false charpath flattenpath
pathbbox 4 1 roll pop pop pop grestore def
/line {gsave exec grestore 0 fontsize neg rmoveto} def
/diff {
{timestext ( (Times Roman)) show} line
{symboltext times setfont ( (Symbol)) show} line
{gsave timestext ( (Times Roman minus Symbol)) show grestore 1 setgray
symboltext} line
{gsave symboltext times setfont ( (Symbol minus Times Roman)) show grestore
1 setgray timestext} line
} def
90 rotate 72 -72 Hheight sub moveto
/timestext {times setfont (ABEHIKMNOPTXYZ) show} def
/symboltext {symbol setfont (ABEHIKMNORTCUZ) show} def
diff
{} line
/timestext {times setfont (!#%&()*+,.0123456789:;<=>?) show} def
/symboltext {symbol setfont (!#%&()*+,.0123456789:;<=>?) show} def
diff
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Jan Michael Rynning, jmr@nada.kth.se
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