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Re: Postscript bug

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Hi,

In <kqon76$ipj$2@speranza.aioe.org>, tholen@antispam.ham writes:
>Steve writes:
>
>> In the "Blue Book", "PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook",
>> Adobe Systems Incorporated, there is a routine that creates an outline
>> font from a filled font (page 203).  So the above makes sense If both
>> fonts are in both documents.  Not that there are not fonts that are not
>> filled.  To be filled, an outline must exist defining a glyph.  The Blue
>> Book and the Language Reference can be downloaded as PDF's. 
>
>I had already found a file PLRM2.pdf, which I presume stands for
>Postscript Language Reference Manual.  It's 772 pages long, and I
>haven't had time to read through all of it yet.  Nor am I terribly
>motivated to do so, just to track down a driver bug, because I
>wouldn't know who could fix the driver itself.

   Right.  You would probably need the author of the program(s)
 being used.

>> So, examine your font and find out if it is the right type to have an
>> outline that can be accessed to create a new font.  (The fact that you
>> are having problems implies...)
>
>HelmetCondensed is a sans serif font, not too dissimilar to
>Helvetica Narrow.  Nothing fancy.  The 7-bit ASCII characters
>all work fine in their "hollow" or "outline" form, and o-dieresis
>isn't all that different from an o or an i.

   That sounds as if the "conversion" of the filled font to an outline
font is "broken" and not doing all of the glyphs in the font.

>> Can you use a standard font to create your document?  That may be
>> a way to get an acceptable result.
>
>I'm going to experiment with UniversCondensed.  If memory serves, way
>back when I had an HP Laserjet III, it came with CG Times and Univers
>built-in as the serif and sans serif fonts.  DeScribe recognizes
>Univers as both a printer and screen font.

   Unless the HP Laserjet III supports PostScript, that should not matter.
Describe and the printer driver will be doing everything unless PostScript
is built into the printer.  And since you mention color later, The HP LJ III is
not relevant anyway.

  UniversCondensed is a
>little bit wider than HelmetCondensed.  I didn't like the aspect ratio
>of Helvetica Narrow.  And while DeScribe allows the user to control
>the "Set Width" independently of the point size, thus having full
>control over the aspect ratio, that capability is available only for
>regular text, not a text graphic.  The advantage of a text graphic is
>that you have control over the color of the text, whereas document
>text is restricted to black and white.

   Helvetica is one of the base fonts supported by all PostScript
implementations.  If it can display properly with Helvetia (not
narrow) and not with your preferred font, the font may just not
work.  If Helvetica fails, the conversion to outline is at fault.

Regards,

Steve N.

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Postscript bug tholen@antispam.ham - 2013-06-28 04:11 +0000
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    Re: Postscript bug tholen@antispam.ham - 2013-06-28 21:27 +0000
      Re: Postscript bug "ivan" <ivanjt@free.fr> - 2013-06-29 11:05 +0000
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      Re: Postscript bug Bogus@Embarq.com (Steve) - 2013-06-29 19:48 +0000
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