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Re: symbol font not expoting correctly to EPS from iplot in OSX [message #71327 is a reply to message #71295]

Tue, 15 June 2010 11:20

Karl[1]
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On Jun 15, 11:42 am, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> mgalloy writes:
>> I get the some result:
>
>> http://michaelgalloy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/greek.ps
>
>> The code I used:
>
>> IDL> set_plot, 'ps'
>> IDL> device, filename='greek.ps'
>> IDL> XYOuts, 0.5, 0.5, /Normal, Align=0.5, 'Greek Letter Zeta ' +
>> Greek('Zeta', /UNICODE), Font=1
>> % Compiled module: GREEK.
>> IDL> device, /close
>> IDL> set_plot, 'x'
>
> OK, now I'm totally confused. :-)
>
> Just one more test, if you don't mind. I presume you might
> get the right symbol if you DON'T use the UNICODE keyword.
> Which would probably mean you are using the "normal" Symbol
> font. Perhaps the one that comes with IDL. Humm. Maybe
> to get the Apple Symbol font you have to use FONT=0.
>
> Just don't know. Too much confusion. Why do you suppose
> Apple would do this? They are acting more and more like
> Microsoft by the day. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming:http://www.dfanning.com/
> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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.

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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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