Re: What angle do Times-Ital. and Palatino-Ital. slant at?

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From: Rob Marchand
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1988 22:02

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In article <1822@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> kibo () writes:
>[]
>	I want to slant Times-Italic and Palatino-Italic backwards by
> whatever angle they normally slant at - to produce unslanted "curly"
> versions of them (like 'cmu' in TeX.)  Does anyone know what angle
> these two fonts slant at normally?  (Many thanks.)
>
	The information you want is in the Adobe Font Metric (AFM)
	files.  These are available (or were in any case) from the
	Adobe file server (send a message containing the word 'help'
	to ps-file-server@adobe.com).  The format of these files is
	described in the Adobe document
		AFM Files: An Interchange Format for PostScript
		Font Metric (v2.0)
	These files include a field called ItalicAngle; here's
	an example....

#------- Cut Here -------- Cut Here -------- Cut Here -------- Cut Here --------
StartFontMetrics 2.0
Comment Copyright (c) 1984 Adobe Systems Incorporated. 	All Rights Reserved.
Comment Creation Date:Sun Feb 8 03:54:53 PST 1987
FontName Times-Italic
EncodingScheme AdobeStandardEncoding
FullName Times Italic
FamilyName Times
Weight Medium
ItalicAngle -15.5                              <---- Italic Angle
IsFixedPitch false
UnderlinePosition -96
UnderlineThickness 48
Version 001.002
Notice Times is a trademark of Allied Corporation.
FontBBox -176 -252 990 930
CapHeight 660
XHeight 446
Descender -206
Ascender 684
StartCharMetrics 228
  .         .        .
  .         .        .
  .         .        .
EndFontMetrics
#------- Cut Here -------- Cut Here -------- Cut Here -------- Cut Here --------

	The AFM document describes ItalicAngle as 'Global Font
	Information', and is  (I quote :-)
	  "Angle (in degrees counter-clockwise from the vertical)
	   of the dominant vertical strokes of the font."


	Hope that this helps!

		Cheers,
		Rob Marchand
		rob@array.UUCP
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From: rob@array.UUCP (Rob Marchand)
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Subject: Re: What angle do Times-Ital. and Palatino-Ital. slant at?
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Date: 29 Nov 88 22:02:28 GMT
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