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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!bcm!lib!biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu
  2. From: drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
  4. Subject: Re: font AFMs
  5. Message-ID: <7116@lib.tmc.edu>
  6. Date: 13 Aug 1992 16:34:43 GMT
  7. References: <1992Aug12.110315.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu> <1992Aug12.194857.8893@wixer.cactus.org>
  8. Sender: usenet@lib.tmc.edu
  9. Organization: Univ. Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
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  12.  
  13. In article <1992Aug12.194857.8893@wixer.cactus.org> purp@wixer.cactus.org (Jim
  14. Meyer) writes:
  15. >AFM = Adobe Font Metrics files.
  16. >
  17. >As to what you do with them to use them on a StyleWriter, well, you
  18. >throw them in the garbage.
  19.  
  20. What if you have a PostScript printer? Do they do anything for you or do
  21. applications have to explicitly make use of them? If so, what applications use
  22. them?
  23.  
  24. David Gutierrez
  25. drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu
  26.  
  27. "Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard
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