mfc@medoc.ec.bull.fr (Matt.Caprile) (09/19/90)
I am trying to re-encode a font dictionary for ISO 8859/2 (characters
for Eastern Europe), and am at a loss about how to create composite
characters from existing characters and accents. (Example: creating
/Zacute from the two characters /Z and /acute that already exist in
the font). I looked thru all of the Reference Manuals for
PostScript, to no avail.
I found:
Red Book:
Page 95, footnote. Mentions restrictions of use, but no info on
how to create.
Blue Book:
Page 200, and 211. Again, restriction of use, no help here.
Green Book:
A section on Composite Characters !! (Pg. 117) But all it says is:
"for character combinations which are not already included in
the font, some extra steps must be taken..." Grrrrr...
Can someone enlighten me ?? It can't be all that difficult, can it ??
thanks,
matt.caprile@ec.bull.fr
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FRANCEkeithm@ashtate.UUCP (Keith Mund) (09/19/90)
In article <> mfc@medoc.ec.bull.fr (Matt.Caprile) writes: >I am trying to re-encode a font dictionary for ISO 8859/2 (characters >for Eastern Europe), and am at a loss about how to create composite >characters from existing characters and accents. (Example: creating >/Zacute from the two characters /Z and /acute that already exist in >the font). I looked thru all of the Reference Manuals for >PostScript, to no avail. I tried to solve this problem long before I had access to this net. I did succeed in adding characters to existing fonts, but never could get Postscript to recognize existing outlines such that I could combine them to make a composite. Adobe claimed it was not possible, so I had to give up and create the composites from scratch (yuck). I am also interested if someone has managed to get this job done as Matt would like it done. The only method to do this covered in the "colored books" (tm) is to output the characters separately. This is only available to those who have access to the code that generates the output in the first place. Another problem I came across was that each time a font was re-encoded, the memory in the printer shrunk. I suspect this is related to the thread on a software reset for Postscript and lockups. I was told this is normal operation. Keith Mund
kloppen@gmdzi.gmd.de (Jelske Kloppenburg) (09/22/90)
In one of the 'colored books', Tutorial and Cookbook, is an example. I dont have the books at hand but I think is was: making minor changes to an existing font. The trick is, to copy the font to a new font and inserting the composite characters. I copied the axample program and changed it for printing german 'Umlaute' - Adieresis, adieresis ... -. It worked fine. If I understood right, the name Adieresis implies combination of A and dieresis. Regards j.k. Jelske Kloppenburg, kloppen@gmdzi.gmd.de, (++49 2241) 14-2433 German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD)
pgd@bbt.se (P.Garbha) (09/23/90)
In article <457@echbull.bull.fr> mfc@medoc.ec.bull.fr (Matt.Caprile) writes: > >I am trying to re-encode a font dictionary for ISO 8859/2 (characters >for Eastern Europe), and am at a loss about how to create composite >characters from existing characters and accents. (Example: creating >/Zacute from the two characters /Z and /acute that already exist in >the font). I looked thru all of the Reference Manuals for >PostScript, to no avail. ... >Can someone enlighten me ?? It can't be all that difficult, can it ?? It is not all that easy. What you have to do is to make a font, that for each character, instead of drawing the different parts of the character, is calling the other font (with show), and putting in some movetos to compose the character of the main character and the accent. All the neccessary information on how to do this is in the colored books, but no example. As an alternative, you can decrypt the adobe font, putin your new accented characters, and encrypt it again. Easy, but made messy by the useless encryption jazz. As a third alternative, get a program that can open the fonts and edit the characters. Exists for the mac, and *real soon now* for MSDOS PC's. In my opinion, it is quite messy, and a real miss from Adobe to not consider that other contries have accented characters, and make composition of them easy. Obviosly the postscript language is designed by a programmer, and not a typograph.