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- From: ariel@seer.gentoo.com (Cathy Hampton)
- Subject: Re: AFM to PFB conversion
- Summary: Shareware program called REFONT does it
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.072057.26858@seer.gentoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 07:20:57 GMT
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- References: <1e7kmpINNm6v@escargot.xx.rmit.OZ.AU>
- Organization: Brad Lanam, Walnut Creek, CA
- Keywords: AFM PFB metrics
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- In article <1e7kmpINNm6v@escargot.xx.rmit.OZ.AU>
- rcomw@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Chris Cogdon) writes:
-
- >I have a large collection of Type 1 fonts that I would like to convert
- >to be able to run under ATM in MS Widnose. Converting the PFA to PFB is
- >trivial... but getting a working PFM file is not! Does anyone have a
- >reliable (reliable=non-MS publication) specification of the PFM format, or
- >have written a converter and don't want $1000 for it! (less is OK)
-
- There's a shareware program out there called REFONT, by Acute Systems,
- P.O. Box 37, Algonquin, IL 60102. (I don't have a phone number -- sorry).
- I've used it to convert a few Mac type 1 fonts to pc type 1 and it generates
- PFM files for them. CorelDraw version 2.0's WFNBoss utility (latest version
- was 2.0T, I think) also does the job. I think this version of WFNBoss was
- released publicly -- I am a Corel user and, as I recall, upgraded it from
- the GEnie network.
-
- Hope this helps . . . .
-
- Ariel
-