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Re: Help: Mixing hardware and vector-drawn fonts? [message #5438] Tue, 19 December 1995 00:00
James Tappin is currently offline  James Tappin
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safier@phoenix.astro.umd.edu (The Invisible Doktor) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to use hardware fonts for better quality. However, I
> cannot print the symbol for the sun (!9n using the Herschey fonts). Is
> there a way to mix vector and hardware fonts in a postscript files, or
> will I have to stick to the vector fonts?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Pedro
> --
> Pedro N. Safier |
> Department of Astronomy | "Tzedek, Tzedek Tirdof"
> U. of Maryland at College Park |
> phone: 301-405-1531; fax: 301-314-9067 |

Within one file there's no problem, just set the appropriate value of !P.FONT
before plotting the string. BUT it isn't possible (as far as I know) to mix
hardware & hershey fonts within a single string.

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