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In article <906@adobe.UUCP>, greid@adobe.com (Glenn Reid) writes:
> Well, to be fair, it is also a bug in PostScript 38.0, since it should
> never crash with a Fatal System Error :-)

Well, actually, that's mostly what I was referring to when I asked if it
was a known bug, even if I didn't end up saying it that way :-).

> Also, there is nothing really magical about user-defined fonts.  You in
> fact basically still have a Type 1 font, despite the fact that you
> changed its type to 3 (since you use all the same character
> definitions).  In fact, maybe you should leave the FontType to be 1.

Almost.  I do supply a BuildChar, which takes a character path from a
squished copy of Courier and strokes it.  Since the path gets compressed
*before* the stroke, the characters come out narrower but with even
stroke weights.  This looks a lot better than just making a compressed
version of Courier (of course, this technique only works on fonts that
are designed to be stroked rather than filled).

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Amanda Walker <amanda@intercon.UUCP>
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