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- From: 880506s@dragon.acadiau.ca (James R. Skinner)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Davys Dingbats and ATM
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.022355.24317@dragon.acadiau.ca>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 02:23:55 GMT
- References: <1992Aug15.190530.26030@news.Hawaii.Edu> <1992Aug17.184346.2054@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Organization: Acadia University
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- dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
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- >Fonts converted ith PFM2AFM are incomplete. I can See them in the
- >Font Palette, and Excel uses them. Many other PM-based apps use them.
- >They do NOT work with WPS or other OS/2 2.0 apps, however. DeScribe
- >may be using metrics that the converted .PFM file doesn't have.
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- A very large number of AFM's for adobe fonts can be found at
- cica.cica.indiana.edu in the directory /pub/ps/fonts/afms. These metrics
- seem to work better than those created with PFM2AFM.
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- Proper ATM files may also be obtained directly from Adobe using
- their listserver at ps-listserver@adobe.com
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- James Robie Skinner | Jodrey School of Computer Science James.Skinner@dragon.acadiau.ca | Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada
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