Subject: RE: remapGlyph ate my bullets. (was Bullet is stuck)
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Jul 27 2000 - 19:29:56 CDT
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, WJCarpenter wrote:
>
> You are seeing the designed behavior. The small circle thing (0xB0)
> is the default glyph used when (a) there is no glyph for the thing you
> want, and (b) there is no explicit substitution called out in the
> RemapGlyphsTable.
>
> So, for whatever reason, the PS printer driver code thinks there is a
> zero-width character in that place in that font, and remapGlyph() does
> The Right Thing given that pre-condition. If the PS printer character
> width stuff were correct and remapGlyphs() didn't do anything, you
> wouldn't get a glyph at all in that position. Since there really is a
> glyph there, and since PS-to-file produces a large mound of goop that
> looks like the definition of the StandardSymbol font, the PS printer
> driver code in Abi must be making a mistake.
Ahh, this is totally consistent with PA's bug report. He probabally has an
older abi.
Thanks very much for looking into this Bill.
Martin
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