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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PageMaker4 PostScript problems
Message-ID: <394@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 16 Jan 91 05:12:27 GMT
References: <11057@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Reply-To: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Organization: RightBrain Software, Woodside, CA
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In article <11057@darkstar.ucsc.edu> zoetrop@ucscb.ucsc.edu (Devan zoetrope MacFarlane) writes:
>Your pagemaker is defining the missing characters and calling for them with
>8-bit codes, which is against all of the rules (well some of them).  Unix
>machines are 7-bit devices, which caused the top bit to be lopped off and
>the character printed from the lower half of the character set.  I solved
>it here by editing all of the 8-bit characters and replacing them with the
>correct PostScript octal call (\xxx).

>Any help you can offer me on this problem is greatly appreciated (Does anyone
>have any *NIX utilities to do the change automatically? Or a util. for the Mac
>to do the change?).

Here is a very simple C program that will find characters with the eighth
bit set and replace it with the \xxx notation.  Note that the PostScript
language convention recognizes the \xxx only within string bodies, but it
shouldn't hurt to replace all the 8-bit characters (unless there are 8-bit
characters used in PostScript names somewhere in the code, which I very
much doubt unless it came from a non-English-language system).

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#include <stdio.h>

/* reads from stdin, writes to stdout, replaces 8-bit characters with
   7-bit equivalent expression using PostScript \xxx standard notation */

main ()
{
    int ch;
    short cont;

    cont = 1;
    while ( cont ) {
	ch=getchar();
	cont = (ch != EOF);
	if ( cont ) {
	    if ( ch > 127 ) {
		printf ( "\\%3o", ch );
		fprintf ( stderr, "\\%3o\n", ch );
	    } else {
		putchar ( ch );
	    }
	}
    }
}

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