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From: hayes@apollo.COM (Timothy Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Encoding Vectors/Character Sets
Message-ID: <41e70248.1830f@apollo.COM>
Date: 8 Mar 89 15:36:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: apollo.41e70248.1830f
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, Mass.
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*** UUCP problems.                                              ***

 Does anyone know anything about font encoding vectors? I am trying to
use Reencodsmall (from the green book) to encode glyphs from the
Symbol set with glyphs from the Courier/Helvetica and Times families.
The reason behind all of these machinations, is that the Adobe version
of the latin1 set does not contain several of the ISO standard latin1
glyphs (e.g. degree, plusminus, copyright). When I place these names
in the encoding vector they are rendered as blanks. Any ideas?

 Is Adobe planning to support >8bit character sets? Rumour has it that
a Kanji font has been released. Is this true? How does one get around
an encoding vector that is only 256 bytes, when there could be thousands
of characters. Any ideas?

 Please let me know if this is the appropriate newsgroup, for this 
discussion. Thanks.


Tim Hayes
Apollo Computer
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Tim Hayes
Apollo Computer
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