Groups | Search | Server Info | Login | Register

Groups > comp.os.os2.bugs > #215

Re: Postscript bug

Show all headers | View raw

On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 21:27:48 UTC, tholen@antispam.ham wrote:

> Steve writes:
> 
> >> If it can print o-dieresis properly without the hollow attribute,
> >> shouldn't it also be able to print it with the hollow attribute?
> 
> > PostScript is a complete programming language, so it can be
> > very complex, and hard to debug.  Your "hollow attribute" is
> > not a built-in feature of PostScript (not a language primative).
> > So you will have to see where it is defined in the document and
> > place some debugging code there.
> 
> "Hollow" is what DeScribe calls it.  In the OS/2 Font Palette
> editor, there is an emphasis called "Outline" that appear to
> do the same thing.
> 
> The only thing that is obvious in the Postscript file is that
> the text with and without the hollow attribute is preceded with
> 
> 478 /HelmetCondensed-Bold1 SF
> 478 /HelmetCondensed-Bold SF
> 
> 
First question, does the printer font have a set of glyphs for the 
'hollow' or 'outline' that you want to use?  If not you will just have
printed what the printer substitutes in its place.  Remember also that
not all fonts and glyphs are scalable, many have only fixed sizes.

  
ivan
-- 

Back to comp.os.os2.bugs | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar

Thread

Postscript bug tholen@antispam.ham - 2013-06-28 04:11 +0000
  Re: Postscript bug Bogus@Embarq.com (Steve) - 2013-06-28 11:34 +0000
    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
        Re: Postscript bug tholen@antispam.ham - 2013-06-30 07:19 +0000
      Re: Postscript bug Bogus@Embarq.com (Steve) - 2013-06-29 19:48 +0000
        Re: Postscript bug tholen@antispam.ham - 2013-06-30 07:37 +0000
          Re: Postscript bug Bogus@Embarq.com (Steve) - 2013-06-30 13:11 +0000

csiph-web