[cl-pdf-devel] encoding question

[Cyrus Harmon]

So, now that I'm finally getting around to exploring cl-pdf a bit,  
I'm running across issues that others have run into before. Is there  
any documentation on the encoding besides just seeing what's in  
encodings.lisp and in the pdf file? I don't know a lot about SBCLs  
encodings either, much less other lisps, but it would be nice if  
there were some mappings between the encodings of the lisp and the  
pdf encodings. As it is it seems like there are mappings on top of a  
single encoding (different for each lisp of course) and that the  
codes of that encoding, not the characters per se, are then remapped  
to postscript encodings. I used trial and error to see what was what.  
While it's nice that #\COPYRIGHT_SIGN does the right thing, it would  
be even nicer if #\LEFT_DOUBLE_QUOTATION_MARK, e.g. and the rest of  
the postscript-available symbols worked with their equivalents in the  
encoding of the host lisp.

> > Am I missing something really simple trying to insert these  
> characters?
> > The
> > pdf itself comes out with an 'A' with a carat over it and then the
> > character I
> > want.  I'm using shift-alt-0 for copyright and alt-e for trademark.
>
> It depends of the encoding used in the pdf font. You can look at the
> encodings or you can write a program to output a code=>character  
> table to
> see what is the code of a given character.
>
> Marc

Thanks,

Cyrus