austin@skorpio.USask.CA (Alvin Austin) (12/06/90)
Most wp programs require that an AFM file be provided with a downloadable PS font so that the program can figure out how to do character spacing and line breaking. For public domain fonts, these AFM files are often either non-existent or not included. Has anyone come up with some code to produce at least a partial AFM file (which could then be hand-edited), either by writing a stand-alone program, or maybe sending the font to the printer, then using 'stringwidth' (and other) operators, and then capturing the 'print' output? Any comments or suggestions welcome... Thanks, Alvin Austin ___________________________________________________________________________ Alvin Austin Email: austin@skorpio.USask.Ca Department of Computational Science (Mail) Room 1C101 Engineering Building Office: Room 145.1 Arts Building University of Saskatchewan Telephone: (306) 966-4895 Saskatoon, Sask. CANADA S7N 0W0 FAX: (306) 966-8709 ___________________________________________________________________________
pd1h+@andrew.cmu.edu (Philip H. Dye) (12/09/90)
As I recall a postscript program that prints own the AFM file or outputs it to the printers standard output (back to the send on a serial line) is available on the adobe ps developers package. All of the information and programs from that package are available from the adobe fileserver. Philip
clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis) (12/11/90)
In article <1990Dec5.203819.9021@herald.usask.ca> austin@skorpio.USask.CA (Alvin Austin) writes: >Most wp programs require that an AFM file be provided with a >Has anyone come up with some code to produce at least a >partial AFM file (which could then be hand-edited), either >by writing a stand-alone program, or maybe sending the >font to the printer, then using 'stringwidth' (and other) >operators, and then capturing the 'print' output? If ditroff width tables are close enough for your hand-editting, there's a program in psroff 2.0 which you can send to the printer and it spits back ditroff width tables in shar format. This could be the basis of a AFM-specific format generator. -- Chris Lewis, Phone: (613) 832-0541 UUCP: uunet!utai!lsuc!ecicrl!clewis Moderator of the Ferret Mailing List (ferret-request@eci386) Psroff mailing list (psroff-request@eci386)
pgd@bbt.se (12/13/90)
In article <1990Dec5.203819.9021@herald.usask.ca> austin@skorpio.USask.CA (Alvin Austin) writes: >Most wp programs require that an AFM file be provided with a >Has anyone come up with some code to produce at least a >partial AFM file (which could then be hand-edited), either >by writing a stand-alone program, or maybe sending the >font to the printer, then using 'stringwidth' (and other) >operators, and then capturing the 'print' output? There is a program in the archives which generates an AFM file from any font. I got one from there, but have forgotten exactly from where. But can try with: comp.sources.unix volume 7 issue 7: Postscript program to generate .AFM files P. Garbha
shiva@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth Porter) (12/15/90)
austin@skorpio.USask.CA (Alvin Austin) writes: > Has anyone come up with some code to produce at least a > partial AFM file (which could then be hand-edited), either > by writing a stand-alone program, or maybe sending the > font to the printer, then using 'stringwidth' (and other) > operators, and then capturing the 'print' output? Pipeline Associates (publishers of The PostScript Journal) has getafm.ps, which when sent to the printer, will return the AFM file for a font. Does anyone have an email address for Pipeline? Ken (shiva@well.sf.ca.us)