At 2:31 PM +0100 10/18/06, Peter B. West wrote:
>I don't want a character that isn't drawn - that's what is happening now
>by default. I want a character that is drawn as the .notdef glyph at
>glyph position 0.
Why? What purpose would that serve?
>I don't _want_ to put undefined characters in a PDF. But if I am handed
>text and a font such that there are characters in the text that are not
>represented in the font, I want that fact to be obvious to the observer
>of the PDF.
Ah - I see now.
in that case, I would recommend that you pick a specific
glyph from the font that can be easily noticed as being incorrect.
Esp. since even if .notdef worked, it's usually empty/blank.
> That way I don't have to make arbitrary decisions about what
>to do with the characters. I rely on the default behaviour of the font.
Except that, as Paulo noted, .notdef behavior in layout is
different than in rendering.
Leonard
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