Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!eci386!ecicrl!clewis
From: clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Generating AFM files for PD fonts
Message-ID: <999@ecicrl.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 90 20:51:50 GMT
References: <1990Dec5.203819.9021@herald.usask.ca>
Reply-To: clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
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In article <1990Dec5.203819.9021@herald.usask.ca> austin@skorpio.USask.CA (Alvin Austin) writes:
>Most wp programs require that an AFM file be provided with a
>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?

If ditroff width tables are close enough for your hand-editting,
there's a program in psroff 2.0 which you can send to the printer
and it spits back ditroff width tables in shar format.  This could
be the basis of a AFM-specific format generator.
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