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From: Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: unencoded characters in printer resident PS fonts
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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:20 +0200
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Plamen Tanovski wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> is there a way to get all cararacters, especially the unencoded from
> printer resident PS fonts? I tried prfont.ps from ghostscript, but it
> shows only the encoded 256 slots. Then I reencoded the (not embedded)
> font to LaTeX' T1 encoding and print it. The new characters are shown on
> paper, which means, they are presented (unencoded) in the font.
> 
> Some information: the printer is Lexmark C720 and the font is
> StempelGaramond-Roman (easy to experiment, because there are metric
> files for TeX available).
> 
> best regards

When using prfont.ps on a real PostScript printer, make sure the script 
contains the line
/min { 2 copy gt { exch } if pop } bind def
and then replace all occurences of
.min
by
min

Then it will print the unencoded characters.

The reason is that ".min" is a Ghostscript extension but equivalent to the 
definition of min listed above.

Helge