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- From: cortesi@informix.com (David Cortesi)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: font install query
- Keywords: font adobe afm prebuild screenafm
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.230605.11512@informix.com>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 23:06:05 GMT
- Sender: news@informix.com (Usenet News)
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- Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
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- I am trying to install a new font and running into a mismatch
- between the NeXT documentation and the Adobe deliverables.
-
- The first step requires an "outline font" file; by examining
- the existing ones I see these are PostScript files. The other two
- steps are "prebuild" and "screenafm" both taking "a set of screen
- bitmap files" which are supposed to be Adobe's "Character Bitmap
- Distribution Format (CBDF)."
-
- What I have is an Adobe font package sold for a PC, and on the
- diskettes are outline fonts in BINARY with the file
- suffixes ".pfb"; and screen bitmap files which are also
- binary with suffixes ".afb".
-
- By sheer chance I have a program that converts a .pfb file
- into an editable PostScript file that looks *pretty*
- much like the existing ones ("psdl" from the Eroff
- package). But the .afb files are unacceptable to
- "prebuild" and "screenafm" So: Is there any way to get
- from an Adobe ".afb" file to a "CBDF" file? Or do I have to
- order this package all over again?
-