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Article #3129Re: How to create composite characters ?
From: Keith Mund
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 1990 15:10
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 1990 15:10
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In article <> mfc@medoc.ec.bull.fr (Matt.Caprile) writes: >I am trying to re-encode a font dictionary for ISO 8859/2 (characters >for Eastern Europe), and am at a loss about how to create composite >characters from existing characters and accents. (Example: creating >/Zacute from the two characters /Z and /acute that already exist in >the font). I looked thru all of the Reference Manuals for >PostScript, to no avail. I tried to solve this problem long before I had access to this net. I did succeed in adding characters to existing fonts, but never could get Postscript to recognize existing outlines such that I could combine them to make a composite. Adobe claimed it was not possible, so I had to give up and create the composites from scratch (yuck). I am also interested if someone has managed to get this job done as Matt would like it done. The only method to do this covered in the "colored books" (tm) is to output the characters separately. This is only available to those who have access to the code that generates the output in the first place. Another problem I came across was that each time a font was re-encoded, the memory in the printer shrunk. I suspect this is related to the thread on a software reset for Postscript and lockups. I was told this is normal operation. Keith Mund
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!samsung!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!hacgate!ashtate!keithm From: keithm@ashtate.UUCP (Keith Mund) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: How to create composite characters ? Message-ID: <1244@ashtate.UUCP> Date: 19 Sep 90 15:10:26 GMT Reply-To: keithm@ashtate.UUCP (Keith Mund) Organization: Ashton-Tate, Torrance, CA Lines: 26