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Distill
Message #13324
Lori, Thanks for directing me to the UNSTUF.ARC — there's no need to upload an ASCII version of Distill. –Lenox
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Lori, Ah, I have a problem with the Distill program you uploaded. I don't have a Mac, but the file you uploaded is a compressed file which requires StuffIt (a Mac utility) to unpack. Can you upload the file in ZIP, ARC, or clear ASCII format for me? Thanks again!…
#Distill
Message #13225
Lori, About a month ago you said you would upload DistillPS for us. Is that ready to go yet? –Lenox
Steve, Looks like you're exactly right — that's what the book says. But I don't really understand the need for the components of composite characters to be in the encoding vector. I'd think that the fact that /A and /acute are defined in CharStrings would be enough information for the…
#ReEncode bug
Message #6621
I am using the ReEncode procedure which I found in the file PS-17C.TXT in DL4. For reasons I don't understand, the new font which I make will not work if the new Encoding vector is too different from the original one. Consider the following re-encoding fonts: /VeryDifferent [256 {/.notdef} repeat]…