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Re: Dingbats in the other direction.

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From: Woody Baker Eagle Signal
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1991 05:30
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In article <1991Mar4.143923.22792@letni.lonestar.org>, doug@letni.lonestar.org (Doug Davis) writes:
> 
> 
> Does anyone have a nice short piece of code that will reencode the
> ZapfDingbats font so everything will point the other direction.
> 

There are several ways to do this.  Try  -1 1 scale before printing.
A somewhat better way, would be to create a new font, ala the Blue Book
font modification routine, and change the fontmatrix entry in the new font
to have the appropriate negative value it it.
Cheers
Woody
> 
>                                                              "Be seeing you..."
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From: woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal)
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Subject: Re: Dingbats in the other direction.
Summary: several ways.
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Date: 5 Mar 91 05:30:46 GMT
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