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From: telam@pyrps5.pyramid.com (Thomas Elam)
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Subject: Re: POST1.3 -- findfont problems
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Date: 15 Nov 90 04:42:57 GMT
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In article <39356@ut-emx.uucp>, phao172@emx.utexas.edu (Randy M.
Roberts) writes:
|> In article <1703@robbie.tegra.COM> you write:
|> |In article <39277@ut-emx.uucp> phao172@emx.utexas.edu (Randy M.
Roberts) writes:
|> |>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.

Nancy's posting helped me get post to start working for me with multiple
fonts and without awful kludges.  (Thanks, Nancy.)  I know next to
nothing about
Postscript programming, so I'd had troubles with getting Post 1.2 to work.
I haven't read the Post 1.3 documentation yet, and don't know how to get
s:init.ps to use PSFonts: easily.  I just assign PSFonts: using the AmigaDOS
Assign command before I run post.  This is my only real advice.  The rest of
this posting just corroborates that what Nancy said seems to work for version
1.2.

|> |>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 don't have the Helvetica font, but Canaith, ClassicaItalic, etc. work fine
for me.  I entered the commands (is that the right term?) as Nancy said (adding
the "setfont" line) and as shown below.

|> |>I got three big dots, i.e. the dumb default font.
|> |>
|> |
|> |Well, I'm not familiar with how Post1.3 works, but the above code needs
|> |a 'setfont' before it is going to do what you want.  i.e.:
|> |
|> |        /Helvetica findfont
|> |        96 scalefont setfont
|> |        72 72 moveto
|> |        (ABC) show
|> 
|> Yes. I included the "setfont" in my example, I just forgot to
|> type it in to my message.  Sorry
|> 
|> |
|> |If it doesn't find Helvetica at the point when it executes findfont,
|> |it should print some kind of message the gist of which is "font not found,
|> |using default font".  If you don't get this message, then it found the
|> |font (Assuming Post1.3 handles this the way Adobe does).
|> 
|> It never gets past the "findfont".

What happens?  Can you still type in commands?  (I can't help--I'm just
curious.)

|> |Hope this helps...
|> |
|> |	Nancy
|> |
|> |-- 
|>
|==============================================================================
|> |Nancy Durgin          | (Usual disclaimers | Tegra-Varityper, Inc. 
|> |tegra!nad@uunet.com   | apply...)          | Billerica, Massachusetts
|>
|==============================================================================
|> 
|> Regards,
|> Randy
|> -- 
|> Randy M. Roberts
|> phao172@emx.utexas.edu