srikrishnan has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all

I want to add special accented characters such as aacute, ccedil, scaron, etc in my postscript files. I am successfully done that in postscript files. But when I convert postscript files to PDF, all such characters are became junk

Can anybody help me to solve this problem?

Thanks in Advance

Srikrishnan

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Re: how to add special characters in postscript file
by choroba (Cardinal) on Jan 30, 2012 at 10:15 UTC
    How do you convert from postscript to PDF?
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      Hi,

      I am using Adobe Distiller 9.0 for creating PDF from Postscript file

      Thanks for your response

      srikrishnan

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        I am using Adobe Distiller 9.0 for creating PDF from Postscript file

        So, why do you ask in a Perl forum instead of in an Adobe forum?

        Alexander

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        Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)
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Re: how to add special characters in postscript file
by rovf (Priest) on Jan 30, 2012 at 11:29 UTC
    It's not clear how this is related to Perl. Maybe you could elaborate a little bit more?

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    Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>
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      Hi

      In the postscript file I have added some accented characters as below using perl script

      [/Subtype /Caret /Contents ("Zarduáμăšt argues ka man ahōš be kunēh ciyōn … and following, these are direct quotes so should be in quote marks ? \(I have put the translations in brackets, ok?\) please also check below") /Rect 7741 9285 7988 9068 /Title (Original Text) /Subj (Deleted Text) /Border 0 0 0 /Color 0 0 1 /ANN pdfmark

      and converted it to PDF using Adobe distiller, it comes as below in the PDF

      "Zarduáμąšët argues ka man ahÅ“Å¡ be kunÄfih ciyÅ“n ╦ and following, these are direct quotes so should be in quote marks ? (I have put the translations in brackets, ok?) please also check below"

      I hope it makes as clear about my problem.

      Thanks

      Srikrishnan

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        If you suspect that the bug is in the Perl program, I suggest that you hexdump your postscript file and check, whether the characters are represented by the correct bit pattern; maybe it is an encoding problem.

        If this is the case, please post here in a small example, how you generate the postscript code, what bit pattern you would expect in the postscript file, and what bit pattern you actually got.

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        Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>
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