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Re: question: printing an "umlaut" using /Times-Roman

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arunchandra1954 wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I need to print an "umlaut" at the bottom of a computer graphic, for
> the artist's name.
> 
> The graphic is pure (mostly simple) Postscript (PS-Adobe-2.0
> EPSF-2.0).
> 
> Can I do so using a Times-Roman font?  If so, how must I do so?
> 
> In tables available on the web, I've found that the numeric character
> should be \374 (an umlaut over the letter "u").
> However, when I try to print it like:
> 
> /Times-Roman findfont 24 scalefont setfont
> 0 0 moveto
> (hello: \374) show
> stroke
> showpage
> 
> I do not get the expected letter "u" with an umlaut above it.
> 
> What am I doing wrong, and what is the right way to do it?
> 
> Thanks very much for your help,
> 
> Arun Chandra

You need to reencode the font to ISOLatin1Encoding. See the PLRM for the 
details how to do that.

Helge

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question: printing an "umlaut" using /Times-Roman arunchandra1954 <arunchandra1954@gmail.com> - 2012-03-26 00:06 -0700
  Re: question: printing an "umlaut" using /Times-Roman Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2012-03-26 10:17 +0200
    Re: question: printing an "umlaut" using /Times-Roman Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com> - 2012-03-26 13:32 -0400
  Re: question: printing an "umlaut" using /Times-Roman bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi) - 2012-03-26 11:45 -0500
  Re: question: printing an "umlaut" using /Times-Roman "abeddie@hotmail.com" <abeddie@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-28 11:14 -0700
  Re: question: printing an "umlaut" using /Times-Roman gernot.hoffmann@hs-emden-leer.de - 2012-04-11 13:00 -0700
  Re: question: printing an "umlaut" using /Times-Roman gernot.hoffmann@hs-emden-leer.de - 2012-04-11 12:57 -0700

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