> On 1 Sep 2016, at 08:50, Aaron Mulder <[email protected]> wrote: > > Never mind. Kept plugging away and it seems that if I specify an > encoding for the font then I can get the characters to show. It looks > like the StandardEncoding doesn't include the symbols in question. > > /Helv << /Type /Font /Subtype /Type1 /BaseFont /Helvetica /Encoding > /MacRomanEncoding >>
I’d recommend using WinAnsiEncoding, as it has fewer surprises. — John > Thanks, > Aaron > > On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Aaron Mulder <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm having trouble emitting a copyright (C) or registered trademark >> (R) sign in an appearance stream using the built-in Helvetica font. >> >> Here's what I'm trying: >> >> /Tx BMC >> q >> BT >> /Helv 10 Tf >> 1 2.42 Td >> 12 TL >> (\256\251This is a test) Tj >> ET >> Q >> EMC >> >> with /Helv defined as: >> >> /Helv << /Type /Font /Subtype /Type1 /BaseFont /Helvetica >> >> >> What I get when I view the PDF appears to be the "fi" ligature (octal >> 223?) followed by some sort of straight single quote (not sure what >> that one is) and then the regular text. I'm going blind reading >> appendix D where it says that the symbols I want are octal 251 and 256 >> in Latin1 and PDFDocEncoding, and I thought that would translate >> directly to the built-in fonts. >> >> Any idea what I'm doing wrong? >> >> Thanks, >> Aaron > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
