Re: getting the path representation of a character to server stdout

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From: Paul Gilmartin
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 19:02

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Sean Lamont (zeno@phylo.genetics.washington.edu) wrote:
 
: I messed with pathforall, but it doesn't seem to work on a NeXT (none of
: my procedures ever get called) , and it also claims to not be able to
: work with "charpath".

The Adobe PostScript Lang Ref, 2nd edition, states in the description of
the charpath operator:

    The outlines of some fonts are protected. ... charpath ... causes
    pathforall to be disabled ...

This is copy protection -- the interpreter is forbidding an action
which is believed to compromise the font author's intellectual property.

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