Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!caen!uflorida!gatech!udel!princeton!phoenix!cmaguire From: cmaguire@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Cary Maguire) Newsgroups: comp.fonts Subject: AFM files from Postscript outline fonts? Message-ID: <5979@idunno.Princeton.EDU> Date: 5 Feb 91 18:44:19 GMT References: <499@eingedi.UUCP> Sender: news@idunno.Princeton.EDU Distribution: na Organization: Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Lines: 20 Greetings! I have read a few postings to the following effect: that when one sends a font to a printer, it devlops the information normally found in a .afm file for the font, and that one can write some code to capture this information to create the actual .afm file. This would seem to allow the complete conversion of many TeX fonts to postscript, for use in software supporting these fonts. Does anyone know how to capture this .afm information? Does anyone have some code to do this? What about the screen versions? *Many* thanks for any and all help here! Camm ====================================================================== Internet: cmaguire@phoenix.princeton.edu "O Son of Man! Veiled in my immemorial being and in the ancient eternity of Mine essence, I knew My love for thee; therefore I created thee, have engraved on thee Mine image and revealed to thee My beauty." Baha'u'llah