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From: rberlin@birdlandEng.Sun.COM (Rich Berlin)
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Subject: Re: Tymes-Elfin.ps - A free PostScipt Typeface follows
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Date: 15 Mar 91 04:20:30 GMT
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In article <1991Mar14.004146.17802@bradley.bradley.edu>, pwh@bradley.bradley.edu (Pete Hartman) writes:
|> Not knowing a whole lot about PS fonts, though, I just poked with it
|> and found the following:  On a SparcStation 1, running Pageview under
|> OpenWindows, I get really weird results if I add the following at the
|> end of the "type 3 font" file (with the .afm file chopped away):
|> 
|> /Tymes-Elfin findfont 60 scalefont setfont
|> 0 800 moveto (testing) show
|> showpage
|> 
|> 
|> For any other moveto positions, it behaves as expected, showing me "testing"
|> in the font.  In this position, however, it scatters bits of the word all
|> over the left side of the page, with some letters appearing stretched and
|> some just turning into garbage.  And there are multiple copies of some of
|> the letters.
|> 
|> Now, I think it looks REALLY neat scattered across the page like that, but
|> I would think it would be a bug of some sort.  Is the problem with the font,
|> or more likely with PageView?


It's a bug; when fonts run off the edge of a canvas they sometimes
trigger the scattering you're seeing.  With this font at this scale,
for instance, the wierdness starts with the y coordinate 795 and
disappears again when y hits 815.  You may find similar behavior with
a y less than 0 or an x less than 0.


-- Rich