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From: keithm@ashtate.UUCP (Keith Mund)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: How to create composite characters ?
Message-ID: <1244@ashtate.UUCP>
Date: 19 Sep 90 15:10:26 GMT
Reply-To: keithm@ashtate.UUCP (Keith Mund)
Organization: Ashton-Tate, Torrance, CA
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In article <> mfc@medoc.ec.bull.fr (Matt.Caprile) writes:

>I am trying to re-encode a font dictionary for ISO 8859/2 (characters
>for Eastern Europe), and am at a loss about how to create composite
>characters from existing characters and accents. (Example: creating
>/Zacute from the two characters /Z and /acute that already exist in
>the font).  I looked thru all of the Reference Manuals for
>PostScript, to no avail.

I tried to solve this problem long before I had access to this net.
I did succeed in adding characters to existing fonts, but never could
get Postscript to recognize existing outlines such that I could combine
them to make a composite. Adobe claimed it was not possible, so I had to
give up and create the composites from scratch (yuck). I am also interested
if someone has managed to get this job done as Matt would like it done.

The only method to do this covered in the "colored books" (tm) is to output 
the characters separately. This is only available to those who have access 
to the code that generates the output in the first place.

Another problem I came across was that each time a font was re-encoded,
the memory in the printer shrunk. I suspect this is related to the thread
on a software reset for Postscript and lockups. I was told this is 
normal operation.

Keith Mund