#Encoding fonts
01-Oct-89 17:38:43
Sb: #13157-#Encoding fonts
Fm: barry n sher 76200,3631
To: Quinn Wildman 76703,3033
1. Once you've created a PS file, it's platform-independent. So you could post
your message in a forum or section appropriate to the originating app.
2. As for you AFM question, it porbably has to do with different encoding
schemes. The "Real World PostScript" book has some interesting information
about encoding which, unfortunately, was entirely over my head. If you're a
programmer, it's probably the book you need.
3. The standard Adobe character set is ISO Latin-1. It does not contain the
IBM extended-ASCII line-drawing characters, happy faces, etc. The characters
available to your app are a subset of ISO Latin-1. For instance, Ventura can
access about 200 characters. Its default character set is VP International. The
default under Windows is ANSI (I think about 220 characters). For the IBM
line-drawing charcters, one could use a special font. There is mention of such
a thing right now in the IBM section of this forum. Good luck.