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From: austin@skorpio.USask.CA (Alvin Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Generating AFM files for PD fonts
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Date: 5 Dec 90 20:38:19 GMT
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Most wp programs require that an AFM file be provided with a
downloadable PS font so that the program can figure out how 
to do character spacing and line breaking.

For public domain fonts, these AFM files are often either 
non-existent or not included.

Has anyone come up with some code to produce at least a 
partial AFM file (which could then be hand-edited), either
by writing a stand-alone program, or maybe sending the 
font to the printer, then using 'stringwidth' (and other)
operators, and then capturing the 'print' output?

Any comments or suggestions welcome...

Thanks,
Alvin Austin
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Alvin Austin                                Email: austin@skorpio.USask.Ca
Department of Computational Science
(Mail) Room 1C101 Engineering Building     Office: Room 145.1 Arts Building
University of Saskatchewan              Telephone: (306) 966-4895
Saskatoon, Sask. CANADA  S7N 0W0              FAX: (306) 966-8709
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