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- From: josh@MITL.COM (Joshua A. Tauber)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.lang.postscript
- Subject: Installing a type 3 font
- Summary: Unable to install type 3 font under NextStep 2.1
- Keywords: NextStep, font, type 3
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.190510.3516@MITL.COM>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 19:05:10 GMT
- Sender: news@MITL.COM
- Organization: Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory, Princeton, NJ
- Lines: 31
- Originator: josh@awabi
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- I am trying to create/install a type 3 font on a NeXT (NextStep 2.1).
-
- The PostScript for defining the font works. By that I mean that I can
- include it in the prolog of a PostScript page description and use it
- to show text on a page (findfont, scalefont, selectfont, show, etc.)
-
- I have also created a .afm file (by modifying one from another type 3
- font) which at least allows me to have the font appear in the NextStep
- font panel. (I have placed both the PS font description and the .afm
- file in a directory under ~/Library and run buildafmdir on them.) I
- believe the .afm file is correct.
-
- I can select the font in the font panel and type. (I am using edit.)
-
- Never the less, text in my font does not appear on the page.
- Error messages appear on the console complaining that:
-
- Jan 11 12:51:20 amber Edit[6618]: DPS client library error: PostScript program error, DPSContext 48160
- Jan 11 12:51:20 amber Edit[6618]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: workdict ]%%
-
- workdict is a dictionary defined in the PostScript file defining
- the font.
-
- Any help would be appreciated.
-
- -jat42
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