Re: Fonts

From	Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.postscript
Subject	Re: Fonts
Followup-To	comp.lang.postscript
Date	2012-01-17 15:21 +0100
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Alain Reymond wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have another question!
> 
> We define fonts this way :
> /Arial findfont
> 0 dict copy begin
> /Encoding pc-850encoding def
> /MyArial850 /FontName def
> currentdict end
> dup /FID undef
> /MyArial850 exch definefont pop
> 
> and then use MyArial850 in our ps code.
> 
> This works with our Kyocera. But our Canon printer does not know Arial.
> It has ArialMT ? Which makes that we can't indifferently send a ps on
> either printers. We have to generate for Kyocera or for Canon.
> 
> Is there a postcript sequence of instructions to tell the printer that
> Arial and ArialMT are the same ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Alain

In the setup section, insert something like the following:

product (Kyocera) search
{pop pop pop /Arial /ArialMT def}
{pop}ifelse

Helge

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Fonts Alain Reymond <arwebmail@skynet.be> - 2012-01-17 12:52 +0100
  Re: Fonts Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2012-01-17 15:21 +0100
    Re: Fonts Alain Reymond <arwebmail@skynet.be> - 2012-01-17 18:05 +0100
  Re: Fonts Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2012-01-17 15:21 +0100

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