[GRASSLIST:3398] Re: german umlauts with ps.map

[Glynn Clements]

Glynn Clements wrote:

> > i have a problem generating ps and pdf files with ps.map that contain
> > german umlauts (äüöß).
> > I am not shure that it is a GRASS problem.
> > If i put the umlauts in the ps.map file, the umlauts are in the ps file
> > (which is a human readable printer language). But they are not displayed
> > with ghostview or xpdf or Acrobat Reader. I tested on Linux and W2K. 
> 
> PostScript's default encoding isn't ISO Latin 1, but a non-standard
> encoding called, ironically, StandardEncoding.
> 
> Section 5.9 of the PostScript Language Reference Manual (3rd Edition),
> available in PDF format from Adobe's site, gives this example for
> creating a copy of a font with a different encoding vector:

[snip]

> ps.map should probably be doing this itself; I'll look into it.

I've updated (in CVS) ps.map to generate/use Latin1 fonts.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>