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From: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: What dict can font definition store things in?
Message-ID: <130093@gore.com>
Date: 10 Aug 90 22:58:48 GMT
Reply-To: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
Organization: Gore Enterprises
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I am trying to get a third-party type 3 font to work, and I ran into a
problem.

The font defines a dictionary (let's call it D) and tucks it away in
userdict.  It stores in D things such as routines that BuildChar calls and
the encoding.

If I prepend the font definition to the Postscript program that uses it,
everything prints OK.  But if I just print the program, I get "D undefined"
errors.

I suspect that userdict gets reset between the automatic sending of the
font definition to DPS and the sending of the program to DPS.  Is this
correct?

If so, is there a dictionary that can be used instead of userdict?  I tried
using nextdict, which (according to the Digital Librarian) is only
documented in Chapter 4 of the Reference Manual ("Drawing"), where it is
described as "a modifiable dictionary containing any dynamic information
common to all applications, such as downloaded packages."  Unfortunately,
that didn't work: "nextdict begin /D 40 dict def" returns an invalidaccess
error on def.

Any ideas?

Jacob
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