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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Font encoding vectors
Message-ID: <41a5ec5d.1830f@apollo.COM>
Date: 23 Feb 89 17:00:00 GMT
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, Mass.
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Does anyone have any information about using a font encoding vector
that use glphs from different character sets?  In other words if
you look at Reencodesmall in the cookbook, the encoding vector has
glyphs from the standard set like /Oacute, /aring, etc.  At first I 
I simply added characters from the symbol set (/degree, /copyrightserif)
to the vector.  When text was rendered, all indices in the vector
that contained symbol characters printed a blank on the page.

What does Adobe intend to do about >8 bit character sets. According
to the documentation, only the 256 entries in the encoding vector
can be used.  Does this imply that the user would have to implement
a "font swapping" function to handle symbols outside of the resident
encoding vector?

Any help would be greatly appreciated...


Tim Hayes 
Apollo Computer
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