Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!atari!imagen!daemon From: geof@apolling (Geof Cooper) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: What angle do Times-Ital. and Palatino-Ital. slant at? Message-ID: <2062@imagen.UUCP> Date: 28 Nov 88 01:19:57 GMT Sender: daemon@imagen.UUCP Lines: 46 In article <1822@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> kibo () writes: >[] > I want to slant Times-Italic and Palatino-Italic backwards by > whatever angle they normally slant at - to produce unslanted "curly" > versions of them (like 'cmu' in TeX.) Does anyone know what angle > these two fonts slant at normally? (Many thanks.) Look at the ItalicAngle entry in the FontInfo sub-dictionary of the font dict. Should do the trick. The obvious answer is to write PS code that reads that dict entry, but here are some of the values you will find: LubalinGraph-BookOblique: -10.0 Bookman-LightItalic: -10.0 Times-Italic: -15.5 Times-BoldItalic: -15.5 Bookman-DemiItalic: -10.0 Helvetica-LightOblique: -12.0 LucidaSans-Typewriter-Oblique: -11.25 LucidaSans-Typewriter-BoldOblique: -11.25 Helvetica-Oblique: -12.0 Helvetica-BoldOblique: -12.0 Lucida-Italic: -11.25 Souvenir-LightItalic: -10.0 Lucida-BoldItalic: -11.25 Courier-Oblique: -12.0 Courier-BoldOblique: -12.0 AvantGarde-DemiOblique: -10.5 Souvenir-DemiItalic: -10.0 Garamond-LightItalic: -16.0 AvantGarde-BookOblique: -10.5 Optima-Oblique: -11.0 Optima-BoldOblique: -11.0 LucidaSans-Italic: -11.25 LucidaSans-BoldItalic: -11.25 Garamond-BoldItalic: -16.0 NewCenturySchlbk-Italic: -16.0 NewCenturySchlbk-BoldItalic: -16.0 Helvetica-BlackOblique: -10.0 LubalinGraph-DemiOblique: -10.0 Helvetica-Narrow-Oblique: -12.0 Helvetica-Narrow-BoldOblique: -12.0 Palatino-Italic: -10.0 Palatino-BoldItalic: -10.0 - Geof