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From: jbw@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Jingbai  Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: AFM files: of any use?
Message-ID: <20684@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 89 16:49:52 GMT
References: <134400010@cdp>
Reply-To: jbw@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Jingbai  Wang)
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In article <134400010@cdp> jwhiting@cdp.UUCP writes:
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>Do _any_ applications make use of AFM files?  Fontographer 
>generates them but for whose sake?
>
>thanks,
>
>jwhiting


AFM files are provided by Adobe for other other developers, as I understand.
Many packages translate AFM into their own formats, such as TeX TFM and
Scribe RAW font files. However, there are indeed package which use AFM 
files directly, such as new WortStar->PS driver.

JB Wang