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2000-04-30 22:27:13 CT #1
James D Miller
From: United States
Registered: 2006-07-19
Posts: 12

Hello,

One quick question. How do you get bullets to display in a Doc thast you
are going to save as PS.

I noticed that when I took a file to the printer everything showed up as
normal except the bullets were removed.


Kind regards
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James D. Miller JMILLER@NETONE.COM
Amiga 4000T/060 PPC604e/233 Picasso IV
Amiga 3000/60 Cybervision64 DOPUS


2000-05-01 10:36:15 CT #2
Geoffrey Gass
From: Unknown
Registered: 2000-05-04
Posts: 373

On 30-Apr-00, James D Miller wrote:

>One quick question. How do you get bullets to display in a Doc that
>you are going to save as PS?

>I noticed that when I took a file to the printer everything showed up as
>normal except the bullets were removed.

The problem was undoubtedly in the resident font in the printer's
system -- no bullet character at the expected position. This happens
often with characters in the extended character set (codes 128-255):
PC- and Mac-based systems do not always have the same symbol sets, or
the same codes for the ones they do have.

Solution #1: Select "No PPD" when creating a PostScript file -- but
be sure to set "document" font unload, so you won't be including
multiple copies of your fonts. This will send a copy of each font you
use along with the file, and will force the printer to use /your/ fonts,
not his. (The 93713.pfb downloaded PostScript version of the CS Times
Intellifont /does/ include a bullet character, at position 14Cool.

Solution #2 (Awkward): Change the font for each bullet character from
whatever text font you are using to a dingbat (symbol) font. If you use
the "ding" font from the "standard fonts" drawer, its only bullet is
quite large (full character height) -- so you might have to fiddle
with its size and placement (It's obtained by striking the lower-
case l key).

BTW, there's a trick for making a bullet smaller or larger: From the
Text/Line & Fill requester, select /Stroked/ and pick a desired
line thickness. For a fatter bullet, make the line black; for a
skinnier bullet, make the line white. Half the thickness of the
line will be added or subtracted from the radius of the bullet. This
is also a crummy way of making a "bold" in a typeface which has none.

--Geoff

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ggass@teleport.com Geoffrey A. Gass Foulecourt Press
Also at this address: T. Bain Stokes Fignewton Frogberry


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