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From: Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: question: printing an "umlaut" using /Times-Roman
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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:17:24 +0200
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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