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From: alo@kampi.hut.fi (Antti Louko)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: definefont (was Important safety tip)
Keywords: Chernobyl fonts
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Date: 20 Jun 89 18:26:42 GMT
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In article <906@adobe.UUCP> greid@adobe.COM (Glenn Reid) writes:
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>think you need to do that in your case.  Just copy it in the "forall"
>loop along with the rest of the font (except FID).

This is one of the strange things in PostScript font machinery. I can
see no reason why definefont needs dict without FID entry. Why not
just redefine FID entry? Of course, I cannot be sure, as I don't have
the sources :-(

	Antti