RE: Adding extra character mappings to true type files

[Feinberg, Matthew]

> grok (grok) verb tr.
> Slang. To understand profoundly through 
> intuition or empathy.

It comes from Robert A. Heinlein's book, Stranger in a Strange Land.

--Matthew

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From: cpdrummond_at_freeuk.com [mailto:address@hidden <address@hidden 
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Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 6:34 AM
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Subject: Re: Adding extra character mappings to true type files


Hello,

Thanks for your reply.

I realise that GS has nothing to do with FreeType. It's just that I
thought
you might be able to tell me if I was reconstructing the font
incorrectly,
as you obviously know more about ttf files than I do. And I thought
maybe GS was complaining because I'd missed something.

I've run the font through ftdump - and it appears to be OK - all other
ft programs seem to accapt it as well. It just seems to be GS that has a
problem with it. What do you mean by 'grok' ?

> From: Pavel Kankovsky <address@hidden>
> To: Craig Peter Drummond <address@hidden>
> cc: address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 10:04:05 +0100 (MET)
> Subject: Re: Adding extra character mappings to true type files
> 
> 
> On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Craig Peter Drummond wrote:
> 
> > However, when I come to display a postscript file (printed from 
> StarOffice)
> > using 'gs' or 'gv' the program crashes and complains that there's a 
> problem
> > with the ttf file. (It works fine with an unmodified file). I don't
> > understand the error messages that are produced.
> 
> With all due respect to Alladin, this is probably a deficiency in
> Ghostscript and it is not related to FreeType because GS does not
> use FT. Can FT programs grok those fonts? Is ttfdump happy? Do they
work
> with MS Windows?
> 
> --Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott
Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
> "Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for
assimilation."
> 
> 
> 
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