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Re: Sun Symbol [message #41367 is a reply to message #8675]

Tue, 26 October 2004 07:55

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Joel Vernet writes:

> This is just a shame that there is no option for a 'user font' with True
> Type that would be accessible with !20 like (it should do) in
> postscript. That forces me to replace the default Courier font by the
> Marvosym one to later be able to access it easily.

Just to expand a bit on what Joel means here. In PostScript
you can, in theory, add another PostScript font that you
can access by means of a !Number syntax. For example,
if I had a PostScript font named "Fanning", I could
go into the PostScript device and set it up so that !4
gave me the Fanning font:

Device, Set_Font='fanning', Font_Index=4
Plot, data, Title='This is normal and !4this is fanning!X'

Thus, I could mix font types in a single string, an
essential feature when you are writing papers for
journal publication. (All those pesky Greek symbols,
for example.)

Alas, the FONT_INDEX keyword does not apply to True-Type
fonts. So, the only way to add a True-Type font to IDL
that we have found, is to fake IDL out and substitute
one of our font files for one of theirs in their fonts/tt
directory. Actually, by modifying the ttfont.map file.

It is an ugly solution, to be sure, but we do get
a *great* looking sun symbol (and moon symbols, etc.). :-)

Cheers,

David

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		Sun Symbol in Postscript By: Wayne Landsman on Wed, 09 April 1997 00:00
		Re: Sun Symbol in Postscript By: Wayne Landsman on Fri, 11 April 1997 00:00
		Re: Sun Symbol By: David Fanning on Tue, 26 October 2004 07:55
		Re: Sun Symbol By: Joel Vernet on Tue, 26 October 2004 07:25
		Re: Sun Symbol By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 October 2004 22:08
		Re: Sun Symbol By: JD Smith on Mon, 25 October 2004 15:15
		Re: Sun Symbol By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 October 2004 14:07
		Re: Sun Symbol By: Wayne Landsman on Mon, 25 October 2004 13:31
		Re: Sun Symbol By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 25 October 2004 12:50
		Re: Sun Symbol By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 25 October 2004 12:46
		Re: Sun Symbol By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 25 October 2004 12:29
		Re: Sun Symbol By: mperrin+news on Mon, 25 October 2004 12:30
		Re: Sun Symbol By: JD Smith on Mon, 25 October 2004 11:52
		Re: Sun Symbol By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 October 2004 11:55
		Re: Sun Symbol By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 October 2004 11:54
		Re: Sun Symbol By: mperrin+news on Mon, 25 October 2004 11:50
		Re: Sun Symbol By: mperrin+news on Mon, 25 October 2004 11:36
		Re: Sun Symbol By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 October 2004 11:22
		Re: Sun Symbol By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 October 2004 11:18
		Re: Sun Symbol By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 25 October 2004 11:02
		Re: Sun Symbol By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 25 October 2004 10:36
		Re: Sun Symbol By: Ben Panter on Mon, 25 October 2004 09:21
		Re: Sun Symbol By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 October 2004 09:12
		Re: Sun Symbol By: marcuirl on Mon, 25 October 2004 09:09
		Re: Sun Symbol By: Ben Panter on Mon, 25 October 2004 08:51

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