henry@angel.Eng.Sun.COM (Henry McGilton) (05/04/91)
In article <KARL.91May2212243@apple-gunkies.gnu.ai.mit.edu>, karl@apple-gunkies.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Karl Berry) writes:
* Adobe makes the AFM files for all their fonts (as far as I know)
* publically available (through their archive server). The AFM
* files specify the widths and kerning pairs.
Apologies for taking only a part of your posting out of context. You're
quite right Adobe make the AFM files publically available. An intriguing
issue, though, is that the publically available AFM files contain
copyright notices. I'm interested to know precisely what is copyrighted
in files that they give away.
I can write a PostScript program that I can throw at the printer, and have
AFM data come back up the communications hose. Such generated AFM files,
unfortunately, can not contain either kerning information nor composites
information, because this information is not in the fonts.
So what IS being copyrighted in AFM files that are publically available?
I asked somebody at Adobe but never got a reply. If anybody at Adobe
would like to give an answer I'd be grateful, rather than just a lot
of people speculating.
........ Henry