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  alpha using Symbol Peter Billam <peter@www.pjb.com.au> - 2015-04-19 02:00 +0000
    Re: alpha using Symbol Peter Billam <peter@www.pjb.com.au> - 2015-04-19 02:59 +0000
      Re: alpha using Symbol jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2015-04-19 13:42 -0700

#2221 — alpha using Symbol

Greetings.  I want to print an alpha character.
For this, IIUC, I need the Symbol encoding and then:  (\141) show
I've previously only used the ISOLatin1Encoding encoding:
   /Times-Roman findfont dup length dict begin
      { 1 index /FID ne { def } { pop pop } ifelse } forall
      /Encoding ISOLatin1Encoding def currentdict
   end /Times-Roman-ISO exch definefont pop

Could someone point me at an example of what I need to change
to use Symbol instead of ISOLatin1Encoding ?

Regards,  Peter

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Peter Billam    www.pjb.com.au    www.pjb.com.au/comp/contact.html

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#2222

On 2015-04-19, Peter Billam <peter@www.pjb.com.au> wrote:
> Greetings.  I want to print an alpha character.
> For this, IIUC, I need the Symbol encoding and then:  (\141) show

Apologies :-(  Symbol is not an encoding, it's a font !

  /Symbol findfont 30 scalefont setfont 200 200 moveto (\141) show

works fine.  Sorry for the noise...

Regards,  Peter

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Peter Billam    www.pjb.com.au    www.pjb.com.au/comp/contact.html

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#2223

For robustness on other machines, consider 
/alpha glyphshow

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