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From: krus@diku.UUCP (Lars Povlsen)
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Subject: Submission for mod-computers-laser-printers
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Date: Wed, 12-Nov-86 04:59:15 EST
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From: krus@diku.UUCP (Lars Povlsen)
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Subject: Font re-encoding in PS
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Date: 12 Nov 86 09:59:12 GMT
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Hello Folks!

Being Danish, I have a serious problem with the Adobe standard font
encoding. That is, i miss the /aring symbol (a with a ring above) in
the encodings. (And /Aring.)

I am off course aware of the ability to make my own encoding, as given
by the example in the Adobe cookbook. I have copied this to make the
roman and helvetica fonts work.

BUT.. now we have upgraded to the LW+, and would like to access all
the fonts to write our language. Since there are approximately 34
fonts of interest I was a bit worried about the amount of memory taken
by this operation.

I checked it out with vmstatus and discovered that the memory used
was:
			     Font defined to
			same name	other name

1'st font		3589		3400
following		2316		2372	

(This varied a bit from time to time ??)

So, my questions are:

	1)
		Is there any smarter/cheaper ways of getting a few
		extra glyphs into the encoding of a font ?

	2)
		Or, is there any way to show characters from a font not
		in the encoding ?

	3)
		If negative to the first 2 questions, should I be
		concerned about using about 80K for the fonts ?
		(I think I should)

Comments on this one would be appreciated.

PS: Thanks to anyone replying to my previous posting (;o), and thank again
for new answers.
-- 

Lars Povlsen,
Institute of Datalogy, University of Copenhagen
E-mail: krus@diku.uucp / ...!seismo!mcvax!diku!krus