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Article #461Re: downloaded .afm font from adobe store .. cannot install ???
From: Don_McCahill
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:28
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:28
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An AFM font alone is not a complete font. It is only the metrics, an ASCII file (you can open it in a text editor) that shows the width, kerning, and some other information on the font. There are two other font files that Type 1 fonts use. In the PC world, one is pfm and the other is pfb, if I remember correctly. You need both of these, and not the afm one at all, if you want the font to work. I can't remember the Mac situation, but I seem to remember it also needed two files.
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