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In article <1822@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> kibo () writes:
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>	I want to slant Times-Italic and Palatino-Italic backwards by
> whatever angle they normally slant at - to produce unslanted "curly"
> versions of them (like 'cmu' in TeX.)  Does anyone know what angle
> these two fonts slant at normally?  (Many thanks.)

Look at the ItalicAngle entry in the FontInfo sub-dictionary of the
font dict.  Should do the trick.  The obvious answer is to write PS code
that reads that dict entry, but here are some of the values you will
find:

	LubalinGraph-BookOblique:		-10.0
	Bookman-LightItalic:			-10.0
	Times-Italic:				-15.5
	Times-BoldItalic:			-15.5
	Bookman-DemiItalic:			-10.0
	Helvetica-LightOblique:			-12.0
	LucidaSans-Typewriter-Oblique:		-11.25
	LucidaSans-Typewriter-BoldOblique:	-11.25
	Helvetica-Oblique:			-12.0
	Helvetica-BoldOblique:			-12.0
	Lucida-Italic:				-11.25
	Souvenir-LightItalic:			-10.0
	Lucida-BoldItalic:			-11.25
	Courier-Oblique:			-12.0
	Courier-BoldOblique:			-12.0
	AvantGarde-DemiOblique:			-10.5
	Souvenir-DemiItalic:			-10.0
	Garamond-LightItalic:			-16.0
	AvantGarde-BookOblique:			-10.5
	Optima-Oblique:				-11.0
	Optima-BoldOblique:			-11.0
	LucidaSans-Italic:			-11.25
	LucidaSans-BoldItalic:			-11.25
	Garamond-BoldItalic:			-16.0
	NewCenturySchlbk-Italic:		-16.0
	NewCenturySchlbk-BoldItalic:		-16.0
	Helvetica-BlackOblique:			-10.0
	LubalinGraph-DemiOblique:		-10.0
	Helvetica-Narrow-Oblique:		-12.0
	Helvetica-Narrow-BoldOblique:		-12.0
	Palatino-Italic:			-10.0
	Palatino-BoldItalic:			-10.0

- Geof