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Re: IDL Fonts [message #51000 is a reply to message #50999]

Wed, 01 November 2006 18:27

Jared Espley
Messages: 17
Registered: February 2006

Junior Member

David Fanning wrote:
> Symbols in Postscript usually require UNICODE characters.
> Here is an article that explains the situation in a lot
> more detail:
>
> http://www.dfanning.com/graphics_tips/lesign.html

Thanks for the quick and helpful response, David. Everything you said
seemed to be spot on except for some quibbles I have with your tutorial
you link above. I found that I could not get the specific unicode
characters I wanted using the !z trick for any of the truetype fonts I
had on my Windows XP system. Specifically, I was trying to get the
perpendicular symbol (unicode 22A5) to show up -- instead I just got a
square. I could get less-than-equal as per your example. Thus, I
think that the fonts may not have been fully unicode compliant so the
fault doesn't really lie with your tutorial.

Thus, I found myself back to using the vector fonts in the end. At
least they look better in .ps than they do on the screen. Furthermore,
I found that if I used triplex roman (!17) instead of single roman (!3)
things looked much better -- in fact, very professional looking. I was
left with strings that looked this:
'!7d!17B!D!M!!!M!!!N/!7d!17B!D!9x!17!N' but hey life's not perfect. In
end, after all my wailing and gnashing of teeth, I was able to make a
nice "publication" quality figure with vectors fonts as .ps output.

In any case, thanks again for your help and all you do for the IDL
community.

Jared

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		Re: IDL Fonts By: David Fanning on Wed, 01 November 2006 18:36
		Re: IDL Fonts By: Jared Espley on Wed, 01 November 2006 18:27
		Re: IDL Fonts By: David Fanning on Wed, 01 November 2006 12:29
		Re: IDL Fonts By: Jared Espley on Wed, 01 November 2006 12:24
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