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- From: purp@wixer.cactus.org (Jim Meyer)
- Subject: Re: font AFMs
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.061616.11287@wixer.cactus.org>
- Organization: Real/Time Communications
- References: <1992Aug12.110315.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu> <1992Aug12.194857.8893@wixer.cactus.org> <7116@lib.tmc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 06:16:16 GMT
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- In article <7116@lib.tmc.edu> drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug12.194857.8893@wixer.cactus.org> purp@wixer.cactus.org (Jim
- >Meyer) writes:
- >>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 if you have a PostScript printer? Do they do anything for you or do
- >applications have to explicitly make use of them? If so, what applications use
- >them?
-
- As I understand it, the application has to specifically make use of
- them. As for which ones do, I have no idea, but I'm sure that if your
- program wants them, the manual will say so.
-
- --Purp, with great faith in the documention process.
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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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