Weird FontBBox in Fontex Fonts

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From: Henry McGilton
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 05:28

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I have a couple of fonts from the Fontek collection published by
Esselte-Letraset.  The fonts in question are KanbanPlain and
OneStrokeScriptPlain.  These fonts were both generated by FontStudio
(one expects that from Letraset fonts).  I have been playing around
with generating AFM files directly from the fonts.  What's interesting
is that the FontBBox entry in both of these fonts is completely
bogus, although the FontBBox in their supplied AFM files appears
to be correct.  Does anybody have any ideas why the font dictionary
notion of FontBBox is whacko and the AFM file version is OK?.

    Thanks,
        ........  Henry

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From: henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us (Henry McGilton)
Subject: Weird FontBBox in Fontex Fonts
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