Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!intercon!amanda@intercon.UUCP From: amanda@intercon.UUCP (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Important safety tip Message-ID: <20-Jun-89.113152@192.41.214.2> Date: 20 Jun 89 15:18:20 GMT References: <906@adobe.UUCP> <13-Jun-89.091841@192.41.214.2> Sender: news@intercon.UUCP Reply-To: amanda@intercon.UUCP (Amanda Walker) Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation Lines: 24 In article <906@adobe.UUCP>, greid@adobe.com (Glenn Reid) writes: > Well, to be fair, it is also a bug in PostScript 38.0, since it should > never crash with a Fatal System Error :-) Well, actually, that's mostly what I was referring to when I asked if it was a known bug, even if I didn't end up saying it that way :-). > Also, there is nothing really magical about user-defined fonts. You in > fact basically still have a Type 1 font, despite the fact that you > changed its type to 3 (since you use all the same character > definitions). In fact, maybe you should leave the FontType to be 1. Almost. I do supply a BuildChar, which takes a character path from a squished copy of Courier and strokes it. Since the path gets compressed *before* the stroke, the characters come out narrower but with even stroke weights. This looks a lot better than just making a compressed version of Courier (of course, this technique only works on fonts that are designed to be stroked rather than filled). -- Amanda Walker -- "Some of the worst mistakes in history have resulted from trying to apply methods that work fine in one field to another where they don't." -James Hogan