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Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ????

From Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.misc
Subject Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ????
Date 2012-03-08 19:03 +0100
Organization MW Software
Message-ID <15f0586d52.martin@bach.planiverse.com> (permalink)
References (2 earlier) <526d2b50b9see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> <d7db326d52.martin@bach.planiverse.com> <526d38ac26see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> <jja9i4$hsp$1@speranza.aioe.org> <526d3e5198UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk>

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In message <526d3e5198UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk>
          "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <jja9i4$hsp$1@speranza.aioe.org>,
>    Grahame Parish <maillist.parish@millers-way.net> wrote:

>> It's been a while since I last used Pluto, having changed to MPro a few
>> years back, but I seem to remember that it uses the printer's builtin
>> text font for printouts, not RISC OS outline fonts. Many modern printers
>> don't have built in text fonts anymore, and this was one of the reasons
>> for ditching Pluto even though there were a couple of features that I
>> still miss.

> This is easily got round by exporting the e-mail/article into the excellent
> NetSurf, where it will appear in printable form in the font Corpus by
> default.

Which works fine except in this specific case because text files do 
not have any encoding information, so the text will be interpreted as 
Latin-1. Back to square one...

-- 
Martin
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Martin Wuerthner         MW Software      http://www.mw-software.com/
        RISC OS Software for Design, Printing and Publishing
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Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? castlevarich <castlevarich@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-07 09:25 -0800
  Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-03-07 23:24 +0100
    Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-08 09:45 +0000
      Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-03-08 12:07 +0100
        Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-08 12:11 +0000
          Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Grahame Parish <maillist.parish@millers-way.net> - 2012-03-08 12:43 +0000
            Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2012-03-08 14:13 +0100
              Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-03-08 19:03 +0100
        Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-03-08 12:56 +0000
          Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-08 17:10 +0000
            Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-03-08 19:13 +0100
            Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Brian Carroll <bric-nospam@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-03-08 20:10 +0000
              Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-08 21:23 +0000

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