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question: printing an "umlaut" using /Times-Roman

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arunchandra1954

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Mar 26, 2012, 3:06:05 AM3/26/12
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Hi,

I need to print an "umlaut" at the bottom of a computer graphic, for
the artist's name.

The graphic is pure (mostly simple) Postscript (PS-Adobe-2.0
EPSF-2.0).

Can I do so using a Times-Roman font? If so, how must I do so?

In tables available on the web, I've found that the numeric character
should be \374 (an umlaut over the letter "u").
However, when I try to print it like:

/Times-Roman findfont 24 scalefont setfont
0 0 moveto
(hello: \374) show
stroke
showpage

I do not get the expected letter "u" with an umlaut above it.

What am I doing wrong, and what is the right way to do it?

Thanks very much for your help,

Arun Chandra

Helge Blischke

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Mar 26, 2012, 4:17:24 AM3/26/12
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You need to reencode the font to ISOLatin1Encoding. See the PLRM for the
details how to do that.

Helge

Robert Bonomi

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Mar 26, 2012, 12:45:25 PM3/26/12
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In article <c9d40b45-5ead-4a2a...@n9g2000pbb.googlegroups.com>,
addressing only your last question, see the 'cvs' operator.

Peter Davis

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Mar 26, 2012, 1:32:04 PM3/26/12
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Also, the 'stroke' operator serves no purpose here, since there's no
path to stroke.

-pd


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abe...@hotmail.com

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Mar 28, 2012, 2:14:23 PM3/28/12
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Arun,

A method to do this without re-encoding the font is below.

Ed

/Times-Roman 24 selectfont
0 0 moveto
(hello: ) show
/udieresis glyphshow
showpage

gernot....@hs-emden-leer.de

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Apr 11, 2012, 4:00:07 PM4/11/12
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gernot....@hs-emden-leer.de

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Apr 11, 2012, 3:57:41 PM4/11/12
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