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- From: pla_jfr@sld64pki-nbg.philips.de (joachim friedrichs)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
- Subject: Re: Czech language in Frame
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.135821@sld64pki-nbg.philips.de>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 12:58:21 GMT
- References: <1993Jan13.200931.7369@schbbs.mot.com>
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- In article <1993Jan13.200931.7369@schbbs.mot.com>, Q20006@waccvm.corp.mot.com (Keith Downer) writes:
- |> From: Q20006@waccvm.corp.mot.com (Keith Downer)
- |> Subject: Czech language in Frame
- |>
- |> I am currently trying to get Frame to display/print Czech characters
- |> Many of the characters are already supported in Framemaker and can
- |> be found in the standard character set or can be created by using a macro
- |> that will overlay an accent over a letter - no problem. My problem is
- |> that one accent, hatchek (phonetic spelling!), is not in the standard
- |> character set and so I cannot do the above trick. The hatchek accent
- |> is an inverted circumflex and is widely used. I tried using the
- |> 'logicalor' character but this was unsatisfactory.
- |>
- |> The best solution would be to have a Czech character set. The ref.
- |> manual implies that I may be able to obtain additional fonts from Adobe
- |> or another source. Are there any on the 'net?
- |>
- |> Has anybody out there come up against the same problem - maybe with a
- |> another language? I would welcome any advice, ideas or useful contacts
- |> and will share any solution with the world. As I think this question
- |> will arise again in the future it is worth getting a solution broadcast.
- |>
- |> BTW I'm using Framemaker 3.1 on a Motorola Unix Platform.
- |>
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- I asked our specialist dok_mki&pki-nbg.philips.de, he editet the
- helvetica and times fonts. His answer:
-
- Hi,
- the only answer I can give, is to use several font-editors like URW's Ikarus or
- ALTSYS's Fontographer on a Mac to create MacIntosh-screenfont, Type-1-font
- for PostScript-Printer and afm-FontFile (Adobe-FontMetrics). These tools are
- able to place and turn any accent at any key-location with Helvetica, Times
- e.g., but don't forget fonts have copyright. Next step is to put these Fonts
- (screen, Type1and afm) onto your Unix-System. The last step is, using hints of
- Frame's "Adding PostScript Fonts to FrameMaker"-Manual. (This procedure only
- generates PrinterFonts and fixed Screenfont-Sizes, but no F3-fonts!).
-
- greetings,
- manfred
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