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Apologies if this is a FAQ.  My need is recent, and there's no trace
of a FAQ in our scant archives.

We need to reencode Courier to support ISOLatin1.  This would seem to be
a straightforward problem, using the reencoding example on pp 115-6 of the
Green book, and the character code/name table on pp 254-5 of the Red book.
Unfortunately, we have not been able to make this work.

After reencoding the font, we attempt to print out a table of the upper
half of the font, via

	(\200 ... \207) show
	...
	(\270 ..  \277) show

Which gives us an Error: invalidfont.  The character code that PostScript
chokes on seems to be dependent on fontsize.  For 12 point re-encoded Courier,
the culpret seems to be \300 (Agrave).  For 16 point, we make it as far as
\340 (agrave) before getting deep sixed.

Are we running into a known problem?  We're using a LaserWrite II NTX, and
have heard that there may be a known problem there.  If anyone has run up
against this and solved it, we would love to learn the particulars.  Any
help/suggestions/pointers will be greatly appreciated.  If this isn't
a FAQ, I'll summarize and repost.

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Dave Smith, Cadre Technologies Inc. - Database Tools Division
4500 Bohannon Drive, Suite 150, Menlo Park, CA  94025