Re: .PFM format, anyone?

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From: Jeroen W. Pluimers
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 20:44

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In article <Bz7IE8.34K@world.std.com> chrisa@world.std.com (Chris N Anderson) writes:
>The FAQ gives good pointers to tools for dealing with PFB files, but
>no reference is made to PFM files (which are the compressed form of
>AFM font metric files used by Adobe Type manager.)

Get DUMPFM from cica.cica.indiana.edu (directory /pub/pc/win3/fonts).
It can dump .PFM files for you and gives insight in how .PFM files look like.

If I find some spare time, I still want to write an AFM to PFM conversion
program.  Well, maybe the last week of december....
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