coulson@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Joseph Coulson) (12/14/89)
Hi. Does anyone know of a downloadable PostScript font that contains
the characters in the IBM PC extended character set (i.e. ASCII 128+)?
A friend of mine where I work wishes to make use of them in some
documentation that he's doing (using a simple text editor on a PC attached
to a NEC LC890 printer). Thanks...
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Joseph Coulson UUCP: <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!coulsonjeynes@adobe.COM (Ross A. Jeynes) (12/15/89)
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