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Article #10418Re: PFM->AFM?
From: Berthold K.P. Horn
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1991 13:28
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1991 13:28
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PFM files contain character width and kerning information, but nothing about ligatures - or all those other goodies found in AFM files. Character widths can also be extracted from the PFB (painfully), but there is no kerning information in a PFB file. So the answer is that you can get an incomplete AFM file from a PFM file, which perhaps you could then hand-edit to insert the missing stuff. To be useful, PFB files should always come with AFM files attached...
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