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From: kevina@apple.com (Nobody you know)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: load operator
Message-ID: <12334@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 28 Feb 91 21:36:19 GMT
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In article <1991Feb26.010153.5370@kfw.COM> dan@kfw.COM (Dan Mick) writes:
> Should load work on a non-name-type operand?
> 
> In other words would you expect this to work:
> 
> (Times-Roman) load setfont
> 
> , or does it have to be
> 
> (Times-Roman) cvn load setfont
> 
Load will work on any type of operand... you can associate a value in a 
dictionary with any type of key (except a null object.)  Note that strings
are converted to names automatically when used as keys, so

  (name) (Kevin) def
  /name load

and

  /name (Kevin) def
  (name) load

will both return (Kevin) on the stack.  (See pg. 30 of Red Book 1 or pg.
40 of Red Book 2.)

Of course, neither of your examples will work unless you've defined a font 
dictionary with the name /Times-Roman... otherwise you're missing a 
findfont!

--Kevin Andresen [kevina@apple.com]
"You take the wind right out of my sails/It must be luff, it must be luff"