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From: orpheus@reed.UUCP (P. Hawthorne)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Where should I put the .AFM files on a MAC?
Message-ID: <15984@reed.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jan 91 23:51:15 GMT
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.	Mario Herodotus writes:
.	Where do the .AFM files on a Macintosh belong?

	Out of the way. Nothing I know of, aside from obscure font conversion
programs, uses the AFM files. Not that they could not be used, it's just that
nothing does, it seems. I spent a lot of time on this question once, and 
decided to archive them and use the space for things that might be used.

        The one sure way I know to tell a good modern electronic document from
a traditional document is the kerning. Something so algorithmic ought to be
in the programs we use, but they just aren't yet. Hold onto 'em though, there
are a lot of potential uses for them.


	orpheus@reed