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In article <1992Sep8.114437.28018@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>, alfie@dcs (Nick Holloway) writes:
>In <1992Sep7.211025.6855@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu (David M. Jones) writes:
>> [ Vanishing text when using Glenn Reids Distillery with Ghostscript ]
>> 
>> This is typical: All font-setting commands simply disappear.  As a
>> wild guess, I'd say this probably has something to do with the way
>> findfont operates in GhostScript, but does anyone know for sure?
>
>Distill uses the /ScaleMatrix in the font, which is not created by
>Ghostscript.  This means that it will just ignore all text.  This seems
>to be maintained by the operators scalefont and makefont.  
>
>There is no mention of this dictionary element in the Adobe books I
>could lay my hands on.
>
>Here are my versions of these operators to perform the necessary
>housekeeping (behaviour derived from asking a laser printer nicely).

Your definitions of scalefont and makefont do seem to solve the
problem.

Unfortunately, now it seems that distill doesn't work with version 71
of the LaserPrep header (neither does bbfig).  Luckily I have an
alternative now.

Thanks for you answer.

David M. Jones                              "Trifles! Trifles light as air!"
dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu                              -- the Hystricide