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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: AFM files: of any use?
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Date: 20 Nov 89 22:38:48 GMT
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>Yes, AFM files are useful entities.

>AFM files were originally created to communicate character width information 
>to application programs which needed to caclulate linebreaks, etc.

Does anyone have an official list of what Mac programs do and don't support
AFM files? Word, I believe, doesn't. Fullwrite Professioanl does.
Illustrator would, I hope. But what else?

How do AFM files affect ATM?


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