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From: woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: AFM files: of any use?
Summary: AFM files
Message-ID: <17315@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 16 Nov 89 13:09:46 GMT
References: <134400010@cdp> <8049@cg-atla.UUCP> <12830@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: River Parishes Programming, Plano, TX
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In article <12830@polya.Stanford.EDU>, rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) writes:
> In article <8049@cg-atla.UUCP>, hjortsho@cg-atla.UUCP (Erik Hjortshoj) writes:
> > In article <134400010@cdp> jwhiting@cdp.UUCP writes:
> > |Do _any_ applications make use of AFM files?
> 
> > Yup, they are used.
> 
> So, then, why aren't they made available?  When I buy a PostScript laser
> printer, I don't get AFM files for the fonts.  I can get them from the
> Adobe file server, but that doesn't help Joe Consumer.  And Adobe has
> never responded to any requests for permission to distribute the things
> with any software packages I am aware of.  What good are they if you can't
> get them?  (This is one of my major gripes with Adobe . . .)
> 
> -tom

Ventura Publishing includes them.  As to Adobe, they are fairly arrogant
people anyway.  I doubt you can get anything out of them.  I do not know
what they sell the AFM files for, but I should like to obtain some of them.
You mentioned that they are available off the file server. How does one access
the file server and get them.  Thanks for a reply...

Cheers, Woody