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From: jeynes@adobe.COM (Ross A. Jeynes)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: IBM PC Extended Chars. Font
Keywords: IBM PC FONT
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Date: 14 Dec 89 20:46:56 GMT
References: <10429@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
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In article <10429@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> coulson@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Joseph Coulson) writes:
>Hi.  Does anyone know of a downloadable PostScript font that contains
>the characters in the IBM PC extended character set (i.e. ASCII 128+)?

There are a three ways that I can think of to get these characters:
1) Adobe sells several font packages which contain these characters as part
   of the character set.  Prestige-Elite is one example.  You will need to 
   understand how to re-encode a font or have software that does this to 
   be able to access these characters.

2) Several software packages define a character set like this in their 
   prolog.  Microsoft Word for the PC is an example; their linedraw font
   can be stripped out and used for this purpose with some modification. 
   (This probably isn't legal for commercial software.)

3) Write your own.  The code isn't that big, but it is not a great deal of 
   fun to develop.  This is probably the best alternative for commercial 
   software, as one cannot depend on the user to have a font containing 
   these characters.

Hope this helps.

Ross Jeynes              
Developer Support                                   jeynes@adobe.com
Adobe Systems Incorporated                 {sun|decwrl}!adobe!jeynes