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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: adjusting side bearings
Message-ID: <216@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 19 Jul 90 19:13:32 GMT
References: <2259@dino.cs.iastate.edu> <1405@chinacat.Unicom.COM> <1990Jul19.062246.5408@ico.isc.com>
Reply-To: glenn@heaven.UUCP (Glenn Reid)
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In article <1990Jul19.062246.5408@ico.isc.com> rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
>woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal) writes:
>> ...After struggling for better than 9 months, and after
>> not getting replies to several inquires, I am now prepared to state that the
>> RED book appears to be FLAT WRONG when it says that the metrics entry can be
>> an array, that includes the left sidebearing and the width...

>OK, let me put out the flame for a moment.  Get your red book.  We're
>interested in changing metrics, so look that up in the index.  The first of
>three entries points us to the right place (the second entry), sec 5.7, p.
>99.  The three-point bullet list gives us three ways to set up a Metrics
>dictionary.  The example which follows shows the first way.  Go type it in
>as a PostScript program.  There's one piece on p. 99 and a couple more on
>p. 100.

Works for me, too.  In fact, it was fun typing in the example and trying
it out.  Pretty good work for nine minutes, Dick.  It took me 1 minute to
realize that page 99 in your book is really page 103 in my book.  Two
more minutes to type in the code, realize to add the "1 add dict" in place
of the "dict", and another couple of minutes to type in your little example
program.  And you did all that plus the research in nine minutes!

Anyway, the point you made is that it's easy, it's documented, and it works.
I just wanted to let you know that I found the same thing.  And without
adding to the flames too much, I have to agree that Woody's continued
attacks on Adobe are getting tiresome.

Just a thought, Woody:  as a matter of principle, why don't you just edit
out the word "Adobe" from your postings for the next 3 months, and try not
to use words like "FLAT WRONG" or other strong words.  Your point will
still be made (whatever the point might be), we'll get the implicit idea
that of course "Adobe in their *infinite* wisdom" is making your life
difficult again, but we won't have to read it and be offended.

Reminds me of an old saw of which I'm fond:

	"Positive is being mistaken at the top of your voice."

I think I got it from /usr/games/fortune, before they quit shipping it
on Unix distributions.

(Glenn) cvn



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