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From: graham
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 1990 06:09

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Page 95 of Postscript Language Reference Manual:
"All unused positions in an encoding vector must be filled with the name
'.notdef'. Printing one of these unused characters produces no marks on 
the page and no side-effects".

Builtin fonts, which use the StandardEncoding vector, do not seem to agree.
Characters that index to a ".notdef" name, seem to cause the same
side-effect as produced by "space".
Is this implementaion/version specific ?
What does the latest documentation have to say ?

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