Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!hsdndev!husc6!wjh12!kik From: kik@wjh12.harvard.edu (Ken Kreshtool) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: printing a PS file Summary: Editing your PS helps build character(s). Message-ID: <603@wjh12.harvard.edu> Date: 11 May 91 20:23:00 GMT References: <820@newave.UUCP> Reply-To: kik@wjh12.harvard.edu (Ken Kreshtool) Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge MA Lines: 20 In article <820@newave.UUCP> john@newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III) writes: >Some people spool the postscript files to UNIX or VAX for printing, >some demented people like to hack on the files for special effects before >printing, Call me demented; it's the only free way I know to get the Mac to give you the cute little characters that live in most fonts but aren't accessible from the keyboard because they aren't in the Mac 256-character set. I don't mean just exotic accents and diacritical marks. I mean things like the characters for 1/2, 1/4 and 3/4. It's an easy "hack;" just a matter of a substitution or two. And it can be done on the Mac, or after uploading to a unix or vax machine. (Almost as easy is changing the underline weight and position; in a few fonts it is really terrible otherwise. Anything harder than that, though, is suicide for a postscript ignoramous like me.) I don't know if anybody is interested in this, though. If you are, I am happy to give you more details. Ken Kreshtool kik@wjh12.harvard.edu