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| Newer page: | version 11 | Last edited on Tuesday, October 28, 2003 10:25:07 am | by StuartYeates | Revert |
| Older page: | version 9 | Last edited on Tuesday, October 28, 2003 9:00:48 am | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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-!!! The question we all ask ourselves
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-What is a macron?
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-A macron is a type of accent; it consists of a horizontal bar over a vowel. The reason this matters (to us) is because one of the official languages of NewZealand, Maori, should really be written as Māori. However, the Latin character set that is predominantly used (see iso-8859-1(7)) does not have macron accents in it. This means that while people are using applications that don't use utf-8(7) -- predominantly older operating systems and applications such as Microsoft Office with the language set to English -- we will have trouble with the Māori language which uses all ascii characters except for the macron.
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-Also, things like PostScript have built in character sets that require extra fiddling with fonts and encodings if you use characters outside the default, which is what causes the problem described here.
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-''This should probably incorporated into some other page, rather than have one of its own. FindPage didn't bring up anything appropriate that already exists, however. Maybe WindowsNotes? --AristotlePagaltzis''
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-''It's long enough that it would probably bloat any other page it got added to, perhaps it's better to leave it seperate -- PerryLorier''
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-''True I guess. Maybe a PDFNotes or CreatingPDFs page? What bugs me about this one is its ''very'' limited scope. --AristotlePagaltzis''
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Microsoft]
platforms can be a problem when the document contains Macrons
and other characters not in all the standard character sets.
+Creating PDFs from [Microsoft] Word files on Microsoft platforms can be a problem when the document contains [Macron]s
and other characters not in all the standard character sets.
The following technique appears to work at least in some cases where you have a postscript printer visible and [Adobe] [PDF] writer installed.
#Open the document in Word
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#The pdf file will almost certainly look dreadful, this is because all the font that make things look nice on the screen got thrown away in the "Print to file" step, but should print nicely.
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-For those without the budget for the full Acrobat, ghostscript contains a ps2pdf program that works nicely. [Debian] packages it inside gs-common
+For those without the budget for the full Acrobat, ghostscript contains a ps2pdf(1)
program that works nicely. [Debian] packages it inside gs-common
If someone has a word / publisher / whatever document that they want to "Put On The InterWeb" then you can use the "MS Imagesetter Printer" that is created by the "Commercial Printer" option when installing Publisher. This creates a pair of pseudo-printers on a windows box, which can be used to Print to File if the app doesn't support such. The printers are called "MS Publisher Colour Printer" and "MS Publisher Imagesetter" Both are capable of colour, and I've had the most luck using Imagesetter.
