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From: bkph@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn)
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Subject: Re: PFM->AFM?
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Date: 21 Jun 91 13:28:46 GMT
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PFM files contain character width and kerning information, 
but nothing about ligatures - or all those other goodies found in AFM files.

Character widths can also be extracted from the PFB (painfully), 
but there is no kerning information in a PFB file.

So the answer is that you can get an incomplete AFM file from a PFM file,
which perhaps you could then hand-edit to insert the missing stuff.  

To be useful, PFB files should always come with AFM files attached...