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: Font encodings (was Re: Important safety tip) Message-ID: <19-Jun-89.145905@192.41.214.2> Date: 19 Jun 89 18:45:40 GMT References: <2991@shlump.dec.com> <13-Jun-89.091841@192.41.214.2> Sender: news@intercon.UUCP Reply-To: amanda@intercon.UUCP (Amanda Walker) Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation Lines: 12 I'd forgotten that the Encoding vector is used for keying into the font cache. Sigh. Well, at least now it's not so mysterious. On a related note, does anyone know what kinds of changes have been made in recent versions of PostScript in order to handle fonts with more than 256 characters (NEC's new Kanji PostScript printer, for example)? -- 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