ronniek@cs.tamu.edu (Ronnie Killough) (06/13/90)
We have Transcript 2.1 (I think that is the version). Anyway, somewhere there must be some font tables that contain the ?metrics? information for the fonts...all I need is Times and Helvetica. And, all I need is the width, and maybe the left-side bearing. Where are these tables, and how do I access this information from a C program? Thanks for any help you can give me! Ronnie
chow@wanjina.Berkeley.EDU (Ed Chow) (06/15/90)
In article <5802@helios.TAMU.EDU> ronniek@cs.tamu.edu (Ronnie Killough) writes: >We have Transcript 2.1 (I think that is the version). Anyway, somewhere >there must be some font tables that contain the ?metrics? information >for the fonts...all I need is Times and Helvetica. And, all I need is >the width, and maybe the left-side bearing. Where are these tables, >and how do I access this information from a C program? > >Thanks for any help you can give me! > >Ronnie YES, somewhere in your local filesystem there should be a directory that contains all the PostScript binaries and scripts *and* font metric files. If you're on a UNIX system, you should do a "man transcript" and look at the section entitled "FILES" therein to see the name of that directory. The font metric files you are looking for are called Adobe Font Metric files and have names like "Helvetica.afm" or "Times-Roman.afm". They are quite readable, even by humans, and contain more information than you would ever care to know about the respective fonts. A C program should have no difficulty extracting the required information: just skip over the stuff you don't need. Hey Adobe, am I allowed to divulge the contents of these font metric files?? -Ed