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- From: purp@wixer.cactus.org (Jim Meyer)
- Subject: Re: font AFMs
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.194857.8893@wixer.cactus.org>
- Organization: Real/Time Communications
- References: <1992Aug12.110315.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 19:48:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug12.110315.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu> jlawrence@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
- >This may be a very basic question (FAQ?) but I am clueless. I just got ATM and
- >want postscript fonts with my Stylewriter. SOmeone told my yopu have to use
- >the font AFM's with them, but did not know what to do with them.
- >What is a font AFM?
- >and what do you do to/with them to use them with a stylewriter?
-
- AFM = Adobe Font Metrics files.
-
- As to what you do with them to use them on a StyleWriter, well, you
- throw them in the garbage.
-
- What you *do* have to have, however, is the actual PostScript font (i.e.
- the "printer" font) for whichever faces you wish to use via ATM. These
- are the standalone files (extensions in Sys 7.0) that have weird names
- and are usually somewhere between 35 and 60+ K.
-
- That's the way I've seen it work, at least.
-
- --Purp, glad to have a real laserprinter.
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- | Jim Meyer | If I express an opinion, you | purp@wixer.cactus.org |
- | Austin, Tejas | can bet no one else agrees. | aka jimpurp@pro-lep |
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