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Re: Sun Symbol [message #41376 is a reply to message #8675]

Mon, 25 October 2004 15:15

JD Smith
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Registered: December 1999

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On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:07:04 -0600, David Fanning wrote:

> Wayne Landsman writes:
>
>> P.S. My solution to the Sun symbol postscript font problem has been to
>> use the kluge in sunsymbol.pro which displays the inner dot slightly
>> offcenter. If you print it small enough, no-one will notice...
>
> Yeah, I think the same thing applies to graphics in general.
> But that's, uh, only usually done if we have less than 50%
> confidence in the results. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> P.S. Thanks everyone. I've finally concluded there is
> no PostScript solution on the horizon, and it is LATE
> here. Going to bed...

The best solution would be for RSI to collect a useful math and
other symbols Truetype font to match their vector font, and distribute it
with IDL. All of those symbols are freely available, so I think it's just
a matter of them doing so.

JD

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[Message index]

		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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