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- Subject: Re: FinalWriter for Windows 95
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- From: David Marshall <D.P.Marshall@durham.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 15:22:25 +0000
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- William F. Maddock wrote:
- > I have gone so far as to use ARexx to send the characters at positions 1-255
- > to Final Writer in consecutive order. Even using a postscript font that I
- > *know* contains the typographic quotes and the position of them (usually 169-
- > 170), the result has been that to postscript, the quotes *are* *not*
- > *printed*. To non-postscript what gets printed are horribly blocky things that
- > are no use at all.
-
- Ah, of course they don't appear in PostScript output (they do appear on
- screen, you have to conceed) - Final Writer's PostScript init file
- reencodes the fonts - with these characters missing (I sent a corrected
- version of the encoding to Woody a few weeks ago.) I get all the characters
- even on the University's very expensive PostScript printer. I might point
- out that there are some fundamental flaws in Final Writer's Type1
- conversion and reencoding that you'll come across sooner or later.
-
- > Woody himself has said *in* *this* *newsgroup* that Final Writer does not
- > support typographic quotes. I fail to understand why you folks refuse to
- > accept the word of the person that wrote the program.
-
- Because he didn't write the font engine or Type1 convertor? :)
-
- Dave
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