bug#7786: 23.2; Encoding of PostScript files

[Peter Dyballa]

> Peter, do you have any (preferably smallish -- I mean, not
> multi-gigabyte) PostScript files that use this encoding?  Two or three
> would be cool. 

I have no real test files at hand. What I still have is a set of files with ISO 
8859-X encodings. I once used a2ps to create PS files from them. These sorts 
are in the tar file. a2ps changed the real characters into their octal 
representations for portability. I took one such PS file, from ISO Latin-1 
encoding, and added to these octal codes the real characters, taken off the 
encoding TXT file. PS-Test-1.ps displays in X11 with Ghostscript 9.54.0 OK. I 
can see "character MINUS character" at the left, followed by their 
description/explanation.

You could use any text file and convert it into PostScript. It should not 
matter whether you use a2ps or enscript or something else. The produced PS 
output file should be in ISOLatin1Encoding, presumingly using octal 
representations for 8 bit characters. You might take one such file and convert 
it to PDF. You could take the same file, change it, and save it under a new 
name in ISOLatin1Encoding. Convert it to PDF. Change the new file in 
ISOLatin1Encoding, undo the previous edit change, and save it as a newer file 
in ISO Latin-1 (or -15) text encoding. Convert this PS file too to PDF. Are 
there differences visible in PDF output?

Could be this is a way to test the ISOLatin1Encoding encoding.

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  Pete

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ISO-Latin-encodings.tar.xz
Description: application/xz

PS-Test-1.ps
Description: PostScript document