Re: Huge Filesize of PS file 12M

2021-01-22 Thread John Gardner
> > Because I still see a lot of this [in the Postscript file]. Can I somehow > remove them. I don't need all those special characters. In PostScript, you can "initialise" an array with a value with /Encoding [ 255 {/.notdef} repeat ] def % Set array entries individually Encoding 0 /asciic

Re: Huge Filesize of PS file 12M

2021-01-22 Thread Wim Stockman
Hi, Thank you Werner for your great input. So I'll leave the embedded fonts out and take it a step further. I'm thinking of going old school. I generate once a nice stationary letterhead with groff. and for the letters themselves I start them at the right vertical position.. I looked it up with the

Re: Escaping hyphens ("real" minus signs in groff)

2021-01-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Deri! At 2021-01-22T16:27:38+, Deri wrote: > On Friday, 22 January 2021 03:56:00 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > The gap between aspiration and implementation. I don't think the > > "copy-and-paste from PDF to terminal window" matter is completely > > sorted out yet. > > Hi Branden, >

Re: Escaping hyphens ("real" minus signs in groff)

2021-01-22 Thread Deri
On Friday, 22 January 2021 03:56:00 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote: > The gap between aspiration and implementation. I don't think the > "copy-and-paste from PDF to terminal window" matter is completely sorted > out yet. Hi Branden, I can't seem to make this not work. In my last email I explained

Re: Escaping hyphens ("real" minus signs in groff)

2021-01-22 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Hi Deri, On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 at 18:42, Deri wrote: > > On Thursday, 21 January 2021 11:03:13 GMT Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > > > And I mean copy-and-paste not just from PDF but from a terminal window. > > > > Yes, but I have a question: "\-1" renders in PDF as a long dash > > followed by