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From: mandler@apollo.HP.COM (John Mandler)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Composite fonts
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Date: 19 Oct 90 12:55:00 GMT
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I am trying to create a composite font that contains characters I define
plus outlines from a built in font. I have no trouble creating the composite
font. But when I try to insert an character path from a built in font, no
visible marks are made on the page for that character

From the red PostScript book, the font chapter (5) defines the entries in 
a built-in font . One of the elements is CharStrings. My understanding is that 
the following code should place the character's shape desription on the stack where 
I should be able to stroke it :

FontDirectory begin /Courier findfont 10000 scalefont  begin CharStrings /b get end end  100 100 moveto stroke
             
I expect to get a 10 point lower case b at position 100,100 . 

Any ideas ?
Thanks
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