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From: angus@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Angus Duggan)
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Subject: NeWS FontDirectory
Summary: Problems with NeWS Font Machinery
Keywords: FontDirectory init.ps
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Date: 19 May 89 11:22:50 GMT
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Does anyone know how to get NeWS1.1 to use more than ~100 fonts? When I define
any more (using 'definefont'), I get 'dictfull' errors. I've tried altering
the size of FontDirectory by replacing it with a larger dictionary in init.ps,
before the directory is filled with font names, but this doesn't work.
I need more fonts because I am using NeWS to preview the output of a dvi to
postscript filter, which defines the TeX fonts as postscript bitmap fonts.

On a related note, 'save' and 'restore' don't seem to delete fonts defined in
the middle of a save/restore pair. Is this what the 'pseudo-implemented'
comment in the NeWS1.1 manual means (page 151), or is there a way of doing
this?

I only have the binary distribution available, so please send postscript or
binary patches.

Thanks,
	Angus

Angus Duggan, Department of Computer Science,	| (C) AJCD 1989
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