Re: Bad glyph causes Adobe distill failure, but works in Preview

From	ken <ken@spamcop.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.postscript
Subject	Re: Bad glyph causes Adobe distill failure, but works in Preview
Date	2011-06-07 07:50 +0100
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In article <ac02462d-913c-43da-a15e-
dbc55132fc9e@j25g2000vbr.googlegroups.com>, jdawiseman@gmail.com says...
> 
> glyphshow: if encoding, each glyph has to go somewhere. Given a glyph,
> by what algorithm should an encoding number be chosen?

Is it equivalent to a regular character, eg a capital A or whatever ? If 
not (its a symbol) then the exact position is irrelevant. However its 
still worth using an Encoding (simply use the positions incrementally 
from 1) rather than glyphshow, because glyphshow usually doesn't cache 
the glyph bitmap, so its slow.

 
> Fonts: But if the task is left to the interpreter, and the interpreter
> is Distiller, it breaks.

Only if the font is broken. If the font isn't broken you catch the 
error, but then what are you going to do ? You still can't draw the 
glyph.....

 
> The other problem is that the few thousand fonts on my Mac OS X all
> seem to be of type -1, whatever that might mean.

Possibly they are TrueType fonts ? How are you determining the type ?



			Ken

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Bad glyph causes Adobe distill failure, but works in Preview jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2011-06-03 01:46 -0700
  Re: Bad glyph causes Adobe distill failure, but works in Preview jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2011-06-03 01:46 -0700
  Re: Bad glyph causes Adobe distill failure, but works in Preview ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-06-03 15:28 +0100
    Re: Bad glyph causes Adobe distill failure, but works in Preview jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2011-06-03 11:45 -0700
      Re: Bad glyph causes Adobe distill failure, but works in Preview ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-06-04 10:54 +0100
        Re: Bad glyph causes Adobe distill failure, but works in Preview jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2011-06-05 04:15 -0700
          Re: Bad glyph causes Adobe distill failure, but works in Preview ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-06-06 07:55 +0100
            Re: Bad glyph causes Adobe distill failure, but works in Preview jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2011-06-06 14:49 -0700
              Re: Bad glyph causes Adobe distill failure, but works in Preview ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-06-07 07:50 +0100
                Re: Bad glyph causes Adobe distill failure, but works in Preview jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2011-06-07 02:00 -0700
                Re: Bad glyph causes Adobe distill failure, but works in Preview ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-06-07 10:37 +0100
                Re: Bad glyph causes Adobe distill failure, but works in Preview jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2011-06-07 16:56 -0700

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