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From: phao172@emx.utexas.edu (Randy M. Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: POST1.3 -- findfont problems
Keywords: post, post1.3, postscript, findfont
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Date: 7 Nov 90 15:53:54 GMT
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Organization: The University of Texas at Austin; Austin, Texas
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I downloaded post1.3 and post13fonts from "new xanth" the other day.
I copied Helvetica from the post13fonts into PSFonts:
I edited s:init.ps to use PSFonts: just as the comments say to do.

When I tried post1.3 as:

	post s:init.ps screen

and went into interactive mode, and typed

	/Helvetica findfont
	96 scalefont
	72 72 moveto
	(ABC) show

I got three big dots, i.e. the dumb default font.

After hacking into s:init.ps I got it to tell me that it couldn't open
the font file (which it correctly prefixed with PSFonts:).
I then noticed that the command "fontfile" was undefined, so I added this
to the s:init.ps file:

	/fontfile { (r) file } def

which is used in (the file name is on the top of the stack)
/loadfont
{ ...
	{ fontfile } stopped
	{pop (can't open file\n) print }
	{cvx exec}
	ifelse
        ...
} bind put

Now when I type

	/Helvetica findfont

It does a lot more disk access (presumably reading psfonts:helvetica)
and displays the following error:

	post: error: invalidfont, command --definefont--

The only place I have found "definefont" is in psfonts:helvetica,
so what's going wrong?

What is the correct definition of "fontfile"?

BTW, none of the other fonts in the distribution work either, reporting
the same, or similar error.

advTHANKSance,  /* stollen from another netter */
Randy