Xref: utzoo comp.fonts:1875 alt.flame:27680 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.fonts,alt.flame Subject: Re: Where is the AFM format specification? Message-ID: <1991Jan27.194124.17224@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 27 Jan 91 19:41:24 GMT References: <1991Jan24.094815.4688@ioe.lon.ac.uk> Followup-To: comp.fonts Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 33 teexdwu@ioe.lon.ac.uk (DOMINIK WUJASTYK) writes: > I am reading through some Adobe AFM files, and most of the material is > pretty clear. But I need some clarifications, and I was wondering > where the AFM format is written about? It doesn't get specified in > either the Language Reference manual or the Tutorial and Cookbook. > Could someone point me to the documentation for AFMs? > Thanks, Dominik If what you are looking for is the documentation for the Adobe Type 1 font format, that is its own book; in terms of utility as a reference document from which to quickly code up a parser or creator, it is nothing to write home about to mother, but is does a lot to clarify hinting for individual characters and for whole fonts, and is worth the price for that alone, even if just to use the ideas in your own font processing software. Adobe Type 1 Font Format Version 1.1 Copyright 1990 Adobe Systems Incorporated Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. Reading, Massachusetts; Menlo Park, California; Don Mills, Ontario; Wokingham, England; Amsterdam; Bonn; Sydney; Singapore; Tokyo; Madrid; San Juan ISBN 0-201-57044-0 US $14.95, CANADA $18.95 Softcover, 106 pages, ten chapters, four appendices, index. Many illustrations and tables. Kent, the man from xanth.