Re: Lout, Illustrator, and postscript

[Jeff Kingston]

> The final product wasn't quite right, it printed the word "Ofce:"
> instead of "Office:".

Since "fi" is a ligature, the problem is obviously that
someone's font doesn't have the ligature.  Lout is
very conformant in this area.  I ran a tiny document
with just the word Office in it; it produces an encoding
vector

   %%BeginResource: encoding vec2
   /vec2 [ ... /fi ... ]
   ] def
   %%EndResource

and then the word Office appears like this:

   (Of\207ce)

where \207 is a sequence of four characters.  This notation is
acceptable PostScript, according to page 29 of the PostScript
Language Reference Manual, 2nd ed.  So I don't think and Adobe
product like Illustrator would get this wrong.  Rather, it
must not have a glyph for the fi ligature in the font, or
otherwise you would get it printed.

A simple workaround would be to place "nolig" in your
@InitialFont option.  It's a recent addition that turns
off ligatures throughout the document.  Of course, then
you don't get any ligatures.

I'm not sure what they would say if you explained all this
to them at Kinko's.  Your file presumably contains the
same stuff as mine shown above, but who promised you that
there would be an fi glyph in the font at Kinko's?

Anyway, if you do explain all this to them, I suggest you
be prepared from soem glazed eyes, and also it might be
prudent to do it from the doorway of the shop, to facilitate
a quick getaway.

Hope this helps.

Jeff Kingston