Re: Problem in Conversion of Xy4 to PDF

[Robert Holmgren holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from "Peter Goldberger & Anna M. Durbin"
 on Sun, 28 Jul 2002 12:36:56 -0400


> Post47.prn apparently cannot recognize ASCII 171 as the
> one-character symbol for 1/2 (using Eudora, I'm making it now with Alt-171:
> ½). Instead, when the PDF document prints out, it appears as a tilde
> (ASCII 729). (I haven't experimented to see what other symbols might have
> similar problems.) Am I right in supposing the issue lies in post47.prn,
> not in the PDF-creator? Is this an ASCII/ANSI problem? Can I fix it by
> changing a line of post47.prn, or what? Is there a more suitable XyWrite
> postscript printer driver I should consider?  I would be grateful for any
> thoughts or suggestions.

There are two or three simple ways to fix this, assuming that the "1/2"
character is in the Type 1 PS font (is it?). Make a test document, just a line
or two. Put in something like "This is PS glyph 'onehalf':
>{the_one-half_char_Ascii-171}<". TYF it. CAll FO.TMP. Check that "1/2" was
encoded as "\226" (the octal designation). If it is -- and I suspect it will be
-- then your font doesn't include "1/2".

Every font I've tried displays "1/2" just fine. I'm using GhostScript, the
open source copyleft PS interpreter. Did you know that U2 has a frame called
"xy2pdf"? Makes a PDF out of your current open file (and displays it in
Ghostscript). Requires XyShell and Ghostscript -- all free.

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Robert Holmgren
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