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From: greid@adobe.com (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Encoding vectors/character sets
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Date: 9 Mar 89 21:01:22 GMT
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In article <41e316e7.1830f@apollo.COM> hayes@apollo.COM (Timothy Hayes) writes:

>  Does anyone in this newgroup know anything about encoding vectors
>outside of the encoding example in the green book?  Maybe I am 
>posting to the wrong newgroup.  I am trying to use the Reencodesmall
>example except I want to use glyphs from the Symbol set.  I tried

You can't include characters from another font without making a
user-defined font something like the one in the green book on page 145.

>just referencing their names in the encoding vector but they are
>rendered as blanks.  My objective is to be compatible with the ISO 
>latin1 set, which is *not* equivelent to Adobe's latin1 set.  Specifically,
>the Adobe latin1 set is missing degree, plusminus andcopyrightserif.

This is not true.  The Adobe ISOLatin1Encoding vector contains the
names "degree", "plusminus", and "copyrightserif" and fully conforms to
the ISO Latin-1 character set.  The character sets of the fonts (note
that this can be different from the names in the encoding vector)  also
contain descriptions for those characters in all interpreters in which
the ISOLatin1Encoding vector is defined, and in all downloadable fonts
since a couple of years ago.

Perhaps you are not able to print them, which is a different problem
from their not being available.  If you post the code you are trying to
get to work, perhaps we can fix it for you.

>  My character set question is, How does one handle >8bit character
>sets?  Rumor has it that Adobe has released a Kanji font, is this
>true?

I posted a message a few weeks ago to this newsgroup describing the
composite fonts mechanism.  You can also get details on it by sending a
message containing the line "send Documents compositefonts.ps" to the
address "ps-file-server@adobe.com"

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Glenn Reid
Adobe Systems
Developer Tools & Strategies