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From: rokicki@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: dvips: ! virtual recursion stack overflow
Message-ID: <1990Nov26.212623.18586@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 26 Nov 90 21:26:23 GMT
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I do not recommend, endorse, or condone the use of `getafm' style
PostScript programs that attempt to build an afm file from the data
in the printer.  These files cannot have the kerning information
that is necessary to properly use the font.  Instead, get the afm
file from the same place you got the font, or if that fails, from
Adobe themselves.

Note that the raw font must be given a different name from the vf font.
If the vf font calls itself recursively, you might (and might not) end
up with an infinite recursion problem.