Re: Better Fonts for Ghostscript?

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From: pgd
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 1991 11:55

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In article <40284@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> faustus@ygdrasil.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Wayne A. Christopher) writes:

>Adobe has published the techniques for decrypting their fonts, and I
>think a program that does this was posted somewhere.   I'm not sure how
>well it works but I know that it's possible.
>
>	Wayne

But Ghostscript will not accept them, because it does not have the
"seac" operator, which all adobe fonts uses. It will also crash on
another (undocumented) operator on at least some fonts.

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