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From: syd@dsinc.DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Some miscellaneous questions
Keywords: conformance fonts afm
Message-ID: <134@dsinc.DSI.COM>
Date: 26 May 89 13:19:36 GMT
References: <1989May22.210927.13774@gdt.bath.ac.uk> <1935@astroatc.UUCP>
Reply-To: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
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In article <1935@astroatc.UUCP> brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
:In article <1989May22.210927.13774@gdt.bath.ac.uk> ccsiob@gdr.bath.ac.uk (Ian O'Brien) writes:
:<Can anyone supply answers to the following questions... I've 
:<been asked to find them out on behalf of a programming group
:<in this University.
:<
:<3) Are the AFM files for the Apple LaserWriter built-in fonts available?
:
:They come with the Adobe Transcript software.  The AFM information can also
:be extracted from the printer itself by running a program that was developed
:called getafm.

Or you can use the archive server at Adobe and get them via E-mail.
I had a need for that to rescale the Eroff .out files for Troff
and Eroff didn't come with the builtin AFM files, so a few simple
email requests to adobe and viola, I have them now.

The are available from adobe!ps-file-server, to get an AFM file
send it the message:

send AFMFiles Full-postscript-file-name

as in:
send AFMFiles Helvetica-Narrow-Bold

I found that 4 AFM files fit into one mail message nicely.
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