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Re: unencoded characters in printer resident PS fonts

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Plamen Tanovski wrote:

> Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> writes:
> 
>> When using prfont.ps on a real PostScript printer, make sure the script
>> contains the line
>> /min { 2 copy gt { exch } if pop } bind def
> 
> this line is already in prfont.ps
> 
>> and then replace all occurences of
>> .min
>> by
>> min
> 
> Fantastic! Thanks a lot! It works.
> 
>> The reason is that ".min" is a Ghostscript extension but equivalent to
>> the definition of min listed above.
> 
> Since the definition of min is already in the file, I wonder why they
> still use .min?
> 
> best regards

I suppose they simply forgot to change, since this script obviously mainly 
is used with Ghostscript.
You might file a bug at bugs-gs@ghostscript.com

Helge

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unencoded characters in printer resident PS fonts Plamen Tanovski <pgt@arcor.de> - 2011-09-21 18:35 +0200
  Re: unencoded characters in printer resident PS fonts Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2011-09-21 19:20 +0200
    Re: unencoded characters in printer resident PS fonts Plamen Tanovski <pgt@arcor.de> - 2011-09-21 21:18 +0200
      Re: unencoded characters in printer resident PS fonts Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2011-09-21 22:40 +0200
        Re: unencoded characters in printer resident PS fonts ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-09-22 07:21 +0100

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