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Article #4187Generating AFM files for PD fonts
From: Alvin Austin
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 1990 20:38
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 1990 20:38
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Most wp programs require that an AFM file be provided with a downloadable PS font so that the program can figure out how to do character spacing and line breaking. For public domain fonts, these AFM files are often either non-existent or not included. Has anyone come up with some code to produce at least a partial AFM file (which could then be hand-edited), either by writing a stand-alone program, or maybe sending the font to the printer, then using 'stringwidth' (and other) operators, and then capturing the 'print' output? Any comments or suggestions welcome... Thanks, Alvin Austin ___________________________________________________________________________ Alvin Austin Email: austin@skorpio.USask.Ca Department of Computational Science (Mail) Room 1C101 Engineering Building Office: Room 145.1 Arts Building University of Saskatchewan Telephone: (306) 966-4895 Saskatoon, Sask. CANADA S7N 0W0 FAX: (306) 966-8709 ___________________________________________________________________________
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!peregrine!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!ubc-cs!alberta!herald.usask.ca!skorpio!austin From: austin@skorpio.USask.CA (Alvin Austin) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Generating AFM files for PD fonts Message-ID: <1990Dec5.203819.9021@herald.usask.ca> Date: 5 Dec 90 20:38:19 GMT Sender: news@herald.usask.ca (USENET News System) Reply-To: austin@skorpio.USask.CA (Alvin Austin) Organization: University of Saskatchewan Lines: 24