Re: POW -- printing accented characters on Unix

Subject: Re: POW -- printing accented characters on Unix
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2000 - 20:48:52 CST

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At 05:46 PM 2/16/00 -0600, sterwill@abisource.com wrote:
>Currently Adobe's code (called "parseAFM"; specifically, it can be found
>at abi/src/af/xap/unix/xap_UnixPSParseAFM.[ch]) has problems computing
>the correct widths of Latin-1 characters with accents.

In finding a solution to this general problem, I've done a little searching
>for better implementations of parseAFM. The GNOME project has
>been using a version of parseAFM modified by Raph Levien and others
>to fix some outstanding bugs.

         Other places to look for alternative parseAFM versions are in two
of the open source PDF libraries - PDFlib (<htp://www.pdflib.com>) and
ClibPDF (<http://www.fastio.com>).

Leonard

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