Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!TERRA.OSCS.MONTANA.EDU!iphwk From: iphwk@TERRA.OSCS.MONTANA.EDU (Bill Kinnersley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Disappearing Symbol font Message-ID: <9003041356.AA07179@terra.oscs.montana.edu> Date: 4 Mar 90 13:56:45 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: iphwk@terra.oscs.montana.edu (Bill Kinnersley) Organization: Physics Department, Montana State University Lines: 31 On several occasions I've had trouble getting PostScript output that was created on other machines to print correctly on the NeXT. The latest example of this was a graph that I drew on a Mac using CricketDraw. The file was output as an Encapsulated PostScript file and transferred to the NeXT. (Note that EPS files don't depend on the Apple Laserprep header--that's not the issue.) Tried printing on the NeXT in several ways. First was from the Previewer. Also tried adding a showpage at the end and using lpr. In all cases what happened was that everything printed correctly except for the two or three Greek letters in the captions, which came from the Symbol font. The other font used was Helvetica, which printed. The Symbol letters were simply missing. Symbol is listed in the %%DocumentFonts: header of the file, as it should be. The file re-encodes both Helvetica and Symbol to fonts called |______Helvetica and |______Symbol. I can get the Greek letters back by editing |______Symbol back to just Symbol, but this is hardly the proper solution. I suspect the problem has to do with the Display PostScript use of FontDirectory and SharedFontDirectory, but nothing I've tried along those lines has worked. Has anyone else encountered this problem with CricketDraw? This same type of problem occurs with other programs, as I've said. What's a general guideline on how to fix it? -- --Bill Kinnersley Physics Department Montana State University Bozeman, MT 59717 INTERNET: iphwk@terra.oscs.montana.edu BITNET: IPHWK@MTSUNIX1 226 Transfer complete.