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Re: Postscript output with a unicode font character from a non-built in font

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In article <lrop4g$9am$1@reader1.panix.com>, rodd@panix.com says...

> >Then you simply select and scale the font, then 'show' the character 
> >code which maps to that glyph, just as you would for any other glyph.
> 
> Note that if the glyph you want isn't mapped in the Encoding array you
> can avoid needing to reencode by using the glyphshow command.


I would avoid using glyphshow, though some applications make extensive 
use of it. 

You can't use any of the variants of show when you use this, and if you 
are intending to run to a 'high level' output such as Ghostscript's 
pdfwrite device, it can't be attached to the font being created for the 
remaining text (because the glyph name isn't present in the Encoding, 
and the Encoding may be completely full, so we can't add the glyph.

If you're going to all the troulbe of manufacturing a Type 42 font, I'd 
make sure the Encoding covers the glyphs you need and not rely on 
glyphshow.


		Ken

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Postscript output with a unicode font character from a non-built in font idol programmer <idprog@trust.com> - 2014-08-04 14:44 +0100
  Re: Postscript output with a unicode font character from a non-built in font ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2014-08-04 15:14 +0100
    Re: Postscript output with a unicode font character from a non-built in font rodd@panix.com (Rod Dorman) - 2014-08-04 20:06 +0000
      Re: Postscript output with a unicode font character from a non-built in font ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2014-08-05 13:28 +0100
        Re: Postscript output with a unicode font character from a non-built in font idol programmer <idprog@trust.com> - 2014-08-06 11:30 +0100

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