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From: <13501DRJ@MSU.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Type 1 .PFB Format question
Message-ID: <91113501DRJ@MSU>
Date: Friday, 29 Mar 1991 15:29:39 EST
Organization: Michigan State University
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I've tried looking through the redbook for this, but haven't found anything.

Does anyone know the meaning of the leading 6 bytes of the IBM .PFB files?
In each case, it goes (in hex):
            80 01 XX XX 00 00 "%!PS-AdobeFont" etc...
Where XX changes from file to file.

Also (just curious), what effect do the
Serif false
Pi false
flags have when building .PFMs and such (in the .INF files)?

I just picked up the Adobe Plus Pack and found a utility to make .PFM
files from the .AFMs in the packages I origionally bought for the Mac,
but the Mac .PFBs (once I transfer them to the PC, there is a way to get
the resource fork data to the PC) don't work with ATM 1.1 - the font name
will only register if I change the leading 6 bytes of the MAC .PFB to PC
format (MAC is 00 00 XX XX 01 00 "%!PS-AdobeFont" etc)

In experimenting with the PC fonts I already have, i've found that if the
two variable bytes (XX) are changes, the font will appear in the menus, but
no longer be rasterized.

Any info would be appreciated...