hayes@apollo.COM (Timothy Hayes) (02/22/89)
Does aynone know of a way to encode a glyph from the Symbol set into the Standard set? I have tried changing the encoding array in ReencodeSmall (from the cookbook) to use a Symbol character, but a blank is always rendered instead of the desired Symbol character. Presumably someone has solved this problem, since the Adobe latin 1 character set does not conform to the ISO standard. Tim Hayes Apollo Computer ---------------
batcheldern@hannah.dec.com (Ned Batchelder, PostScript Eng.) (02/24/89)
>> .. the Adobe latin 1 character set does not conform to the >> ISO standard. In what way does Adobe's ISOLatin1Encoding encoding vector not conform to the ISO standard? --Ned.
prc@maxim.ERBE.SE (Robert Claeson) (02/25/89)
In article <8902231344.AA05555@decwrl.dec.com>, batcheldern@hannah.dec.com (Ned Batchelder, PostScript Eng.) writes: > > >> .. the Adobe latin 1 character set does not conform to the > >> ISO standard. > > In what way does Adobe's ISOLatin1Encoding encoding vector not conform to > the ISO standard? What version of PostScript or what fonts has that encoding vector? -- Robert Claeson, ERBE DATA AB, P.O. Box 77, S-175 22 Jarfalla, Sweden Tel: +46 (0)758-202 50 Fax: +46 (0)758-197 20 EUnet: rclaeson@ERBE.SE uucp: {uunet,enea}!erbe.se!rclaeson ARPAnet: rclaeson%ERBE.SE@uunet.UU.NET BITNET: rclaeson@ERBE.SE
john@acorn.co.uk (John Bowler) (02/28/89)
In article <8902231344.AA05555@decwrl.dec.com>, batcheldern@hannah.dec.com (Ned Batchelder, PostScript Eng.) writes: > > >> .. the Adobe latin 1 character set does not conform to the > >> ISO standard. > > In what way does Adobe's ISOLatin1Encoding encoding vector not conform to > the ISO standard? Is this a different encoding to that on page 252 of the Red book? If so - where is it defined? If not the answer to the question is that it lacks all of the `composite' characters from the ISO-Latin1 (ie all the alphabetics with accents) and has the ANSI currency symbol in a different place (the same place as in the DEC multinational character set, which is only slightly different from ISO-Latin1...) There are also several additions (eg perthousand) and ommissions (eg the fractions and plusminus - which is in the Symbol encoding). I believe that the answer to the original question is that the the character from a suitable symbol font must be extracted and placed in the new font along with the encoding which references it - all that the encoding says is how to map byte values in strings into the name of a character definition in the font dictionary. Therefore if the encoding:- 177 --> plusminus is added to the encoding vector a character (plusminus) must also be added to the font dictionary (in the CharStrings dictionary). John Bowler (jbowler@acorn.co.uk)