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| emendelson | I'm not at all sure whether this is a bug, but it seems interesting enough to ask about. When I create PCL output from WordPerfect for DOS, it uses the Desktop symbol set (7J) for characters like curly single and double quotation marks. (...more) | 20:49.59 |
| | These characters are defined in GhostPCL source code correctly - they have the correct unicode numbers, and the characters that match those unicode numbers are in the URW fonts. However, when I use GhostPCL to convert the PCL (....more) | 20:51.19 |
| | to a PDF file, those symbols are not searchable characters but (it seems) bitmaps that are clearly bitmaps when you zoom in on the PDF. This doesn't seem entirely logical: the scalable characters are in the Nimbus fonts, but they're rendered as (....more) | 20:52.40 |
| | bitmaps in the output. I've put together a sample file that shows the effect here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/s6exowse1mhbvz8/Quotes.pcl?dl=1 (...more) | 20:53.30 |
| | And here's the output pdf: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ix9fgfvaqq0bwzr/Quotes.pdf?dl=1 | 20:54.23 |
| | Is there any chance that this is NOT working as designed, and that it might be fixed in a future version? Thanks for this - and apologies for posting late on Friday when no one's around to read it. | 20:55.10 |
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