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- From: hsg@cs.bham.ac.uk (Howard S. Goodman)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Helvetica Condensed -- where are the .afm files?
- Message-ID: <BxwpCJ.r6@cs.bham.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 10:05:06 GMT
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- Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, England
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- I (hsg@cs.bham.ac.uk) wrote:
- > I have access to a printer with Helvetica Condensed (which is quite different
- > from Helvetica Narrow) as resident fonts. But where can I find the .afm
- > files for these fonts?
-
- Thank you to all who replied to my question -- k7z092@rick.cs.ubc.ca,
- bkph@ai.mit.edu, and thomas@cogsci.ed.ac.uk. To summarise, the way to obtain
- Adobe font metrics files, from which all the information about Postscript
- fonts can be generated (except, of course, the font outlines themselves,
- which should be resident in your printer or in a .pfa or .pfb file), is to
- send email to the Adobe file server
-
- mail ps-file-server@adobe.com
-
- with a line of the form
-
- send AFMFiles Helvetica-Condensed Helvetica-Condensed-Oblique
-
- or, for an index
-
- index AFMFiles
-
- I have one more question, however: what are the `correct' TeX names for the
- Helvetica-Condensed family? I have been using (r)phvrc, (r)phvroc, (r)phvbc
- and (r)phvboc. I'm not sure that these are right, because Helvetica-Narrow
- has an extra `r' in two of them: (r)phvrrn, (r)phvrob, (r)phvbrc and (r)phvbon.
-
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- | howard s goodman | school of computer science - university of birmingham |
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