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Re: Sun Symbol in Postscript [message #8672 is a reply to message #8656]

Wed, 09 April 1997 00:00

steinhh
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Registered: June 1994

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In article <334B2535.96B@mpb.gsfc.nasa.gov>, Wayne Landsman <landsman@mpb.gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:
|> Does anyone know how to draw the Sun symbol (a circle with a centered
|> dot) with a postscript font? This symbol is available under font 9 in
|> the vector fonts, i.e. sunsymbol = !9n. But I haven't been able to
|> find it in a postscript font, or to create it with the positioning
|> commands. (I can't get the dot perfectly centered in the circle.)
|>

I think you should look at the documentation
for DEVICE,/SYMBOL,FONT_INDEX=something and
then selecting font number "something", then try out
all the different characters. I don't guarantee
that there *is* a sun symbol in that font, but
it's worth a try?

Stein Vidar

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