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From: hwt@.bnr.ca (Henry Troup)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Zapf Dingbats
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Date: 7 Jun 90 15:59:23 GMT
References: <1990Jun4.134931.14882@gdt.bath.ac.uk>
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In article <1990Jun4.134931.14882@gdt.bath.ac.uk> ccsdc@gdt.bath.ac.uk (Dave Cunningham) writes:
>On the subject of Zapf Dingbats, does anyone know why all the pointing
>characters (arrows, hands, scissors, etc.) point to the right and why there
>are no left pointing versions? I can only assume that you are expected to
>use a mirror image version of the font but I have never seen this stated
It's not hard in PostScript - just scale by -1 1.

I'd think that a real wizard could generate a custom font that was backwards.
It would use the same AFM information, etc.


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