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Re: symbol font not expoting correctly to EPS from iplot in OSX [message #71326 is a reply to message #71295]

Tue, 15 June 2010 11:34

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Karl writes:

> I'm a bit fuzzy on this, but I seem to recall that the Symbol font was
> a bit of an "oddball" in that it did not include any Unicode-to-glyph
> translation tables. That is, it could only handle ASCII 7-bit
> character encodings. Anyway, there was certainly something less
> capable about this particular font, compared to the others.

Yes, this is exactly the problem. The Symbol font present on
almost all computers does not support Unicode values. But
Apple decided in MacOS 10.1 to a supply a Symbol font that
*does* use Unicode values, thus breaking all the code previously
written in the world that takes advantage of Symbol fonts. :-)

I have a program that can return Unicode values for Greek
letters (which presumably would work in any font that supported
such characters), but I have had no luck wrapping the Unicode
characters in the Symbol font for Mac computers. Presumably
because I don't have one to experiment with. Or maybe because
Apple is perverse enough to make it impossible to access without
writing an Apple App with the proper software. ;-)

Cheers,

David

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		symbol font not expoting correctly to EPS from iplot in OSX By: Luis Alonso on Wed, 09 June 2010 03:34
		Re: symbol font not expoting correctly to EPS from iplot in OSX By: David Fanning on Tue, 15 June 2010 11:34
		Re: symbol font not expoting correctly to EPS from iplot in OSX By: Karl[1] on Tue, 15 June 2010 11:20
		Re: symbol font not expoting correctly to EPS from iplot in OSX By: David Fanning on Tue, 15 June 2010 10:42
		Re: symbol font not expoting correctly to EPS from iplot in OSX By: Michael Galloy on Tue, 15 June 2010 08:51
		Re: symbol font not expoting correctly to EPS from iplot in OSX By: David Fanning on Tue, 15 June 2010 08:35
		Re: symbol font not expoting correctly to EPS from iplot in OSX By: Michael Galloy on Tue, 15 June 2010 08:30
		Re: symbol font not expoting correctly to EPS from iplot in OSX By: David Fanning on Tue, 15 June 2010 07:30

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