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Article #5298Re: AFM and PFM format, conversion?
From: Vincent Manis
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1991 17:17
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1991 17:17
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As it so happens, I called Adobe with exactly this question myself this morning. The answer I got was, `No, there is no program which does the conversion. We will be happy to send you AFM files for any fonts you may have bought, if you will send in your registration card.' I asked about the AFM files available from Adobe's server, and was told `No, the AFM's we'll send you are different.' I didn't understand the difference. For the record, when I interrogated the server a few weeks ago, it didn't claim any knowledge of a document about PFM file formats. My suspicion is that PFM stands for something like `Packed font metrics', and that the conversion between AFM and PFM formats is pretty trivial. If, that is, one could find out the format. *sigh* -- \ Vincent Manis <manis@cs.ubc.ca> "There is no law that vulgarity and \ Department of Computer Science literary excellence cannot coexist." /\ University of British Columbia -- A. Trevor Hodge / \ Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1W5 (604) 228-2394
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!manis From: manis@cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: AFM and PFM format, conversion? Message-ID: <1991Apr9.171719.26247@cs.ubc.ca> Date: 9 Apr 91 17:17:19 GMT References: <1991Apr7.200742.5025@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> Sender: usenet@cs.ubc.ca (Usenet News) Organization: Institute for Pure and Applied Eschatology Lines: 21