Re: pstotext and Futura

Well, I finally figured out that your ftp server doesn't like "passive"
mode. When I turned that off, I could download files from it.

Anyhow, I did get the files. At first they were beyond my
comprehension. I tried to decrypt the eexec'd section, but got garbage;
not sure what I was doing wrong. However, after closer inspection I
was able to figure out that the "synthetic names", at least for the
ASCII characters, are in fact constructed from the ASCII values of the
characters. Your original test file only defined ten characters; I have
added a comment to show what they mean:

dup 0 /space put % null value
dup 1 /C0032 put % /space
dup 2 /C0046 put % /period
dup 3 /C0084 put % T
dup 4 /C0097 put % a
dup 5 /C0101 put % e
dup 6 /C0104 put % h
dup 7 /C0105 put % i
dup 8 /C0115 put % s
dup 9 /C0116 put % t

I don't know how to take the next step and translate the postscript
into something that pstotext can understand properly, but perhaps Helge
or one of the others knows what to do.

Can you generate a "This is a test." using some other known good font
file besides Futura, like MS Comic Sans perhaps? See if the problem is
in the software or in your font.

If the problem is only the font, perhaps running the font through
fontforge could correct the glyph names.

.

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