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Re: Sun Symbol [message #41382 is a reply to message #8675]

Mon, 25 October 2004 13:31

Wayne Landsman
Messages: 117
Registered: January 1997

Senior Member

> Postscript output (with default vector fonts) and Postscript output (with
> Postscript fonts) are two different things.

Besides explaining why Craig was able to get a Sun symbol in postscript
output from textoidl (i.e. he wasn't using Postscript fonts, !p.font=0)
this may also explain David's difficulty switching fonts to incorporate
a unicode glyph with truetype fonts:

********
>All ideas welcome. I don't even think my font_index
>code is switching to wingdings, because if I print
>text I get helvetica looking character, not wingdings.

According to the documentation, the FONT_INDEX keyword to DEVICE only
works with the POSTSCRIPT device. Perhaps this means that it can only
be used with POSTSCRIPT fonts - and not with truetype fonts? At
least I haven't be able to successfully use FONT_INDEX to switch any
truetype or vector fonts.

If this is true, then probably DEVICE needs to give a warning if the
user tries to set both /TT_FONT and FONT_INDEX.

--Wayne

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...

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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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