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From: priceke@ma.ecn.purdue.edu (Kevin E Price)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Wordstar 5.5, extended ASCII, PostScript
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Date: 23 Oct 90 20:12:29 GMT
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Help!

I'm looking for solution suggestions for the following problem:

	Using WordStar 5.5, I've put together a document that includes 
some of the extended ASCII characters (Greek letters, etc) using the
ALT-### method.  The page preview feature shows everything looking fine,
but when I print it out, i get regular ASCII characters instead.  It seems 
as if the MSB was ignored: ALT-235 (Greek theta) prints as ASCII 105 (lower
case "i").

	For printing, I first redirect the output to a PostScript file and
then do the printing on a laser printer.  

	Question: Do I need to use a special font in WordStar to allow me
access to these characters?  Or is the problem more likely in the laser
printer?  If so, how do I *fix* it?  

	Please respond via email.

- Kevin Price

priceke@cadlab.ecn.purdue.edu	(BITNet address)