getting the path representation of a character to server stdout

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2 total messages Started by Sean Lamont Sun, 11 Oct 1992 23:53

#4123

Author: Sean Lamont
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 23:53

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I need to get the path associated with a character or string of
characters in a given font to be output in a form that doesn't require
the font to be loaded on the machine.
  
ie:  If I have "SpiffyFont" , and I want to have the path representation
of "Spiffy" as a series of moveto's and lineto's and curveto's.


I messed with pathforall, but it doesn't seem to work on a NeXT (none of
my procedures ever get called) , and it also claims to not be able to
work with "charpath".

Thanks.


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Re: getting the path representation of a character to server stdout

#4144

Author: Paul Gilmartin
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 19:02

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Sean Lamont (zeno@phylo.genetics.washington.edu) wrote:
 
: I messed with pathforall, but it doesn't seem to work on a NeXT (none of
: my procedures ever get called) , and it also claims to not be able to
: work with "charpath".

The Adobe PostScript Lang Ref, 2nd edition, states in the description of
the charpath operator:

    The outlines of some fonts are protected. ... charpath ... causes
    pathforall to be disabled ...

This is copy protection -- the interpreter is forbidding an action
which is believed to compromise the font author's intellectual property.

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