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From: oheare@gandalf.UUCP (David O'Heare)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop,comp.fonts,comp.text
Subject: Typeface help needed
Keywords: monospaced PostScript Ventura box-drawing
Message-ID: <2618@gandalf.UUCP>
Date: 6 Oct 89 21:46:45 GMT
Organization: Goodgulf Greyteeth
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     If this has been done to death recently (I have this awful
feeling that it has), would somebody please mail me a summary? I'm
looking for help. 

     I am a technical writer, using WordPerfect 5.0 and Ventura
Publisher 2.0 on a PC-AT compatible, for output to a NEC LC-890
PostScript printer. I'm having problems importing text files that
include extended characters into Ventura. Ventura simply drops the
characters. 
     What I am trying to do is show illustrations of terminal screens,
some of which include windows with borders around them. The borders
are no problem within WordPerfect, or as text files, or whatever.
However, when I bring the files into Ventura, the line drawing
characters disappear. Xerox Product Support tells me that that's the
way it works. 
     I believe that what I need is a Ventura-and-PostScript compatible
monospaced typeface that has box drawing characters instead of the
international characters. Can anybody help me find one? 
     I realize I could draw the boxes in Ventura. The problem with
that is that there will be many screens to illustrate, and I'd rather
not draw these lines three or four hundred times. The screens are all
different, so I can't simply produce one and re-use it. 
     As always, your help is appreciated. I'll summarize any responses
I receive, if anyboody cares. 

     Please email to oheare@gandalf.UCP, or gandalf!oheare. Failing
that, a phone call to me at (613) 723 6500 extension 8407 will always
work. Thanks. 
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