me@spirea.UiB.NO (My Account) (02/13/91)
Hi. I know this is maybe not the best place for this - please forgive any transgression... I'm running OS/2 1.3 (yeah, I know - boo, hiss, yechh ;-) and they've included Adobe Type Manager (oh Boy!). What I'm trying to do is use NeXT and Mac Adobe fonts (type 1) with OS/2. It says quite clearly in the manual that I need _both_ the *.AFM and *.PFB files for each font type. Unfortunately, all the fonts I've seen for the Mac and NeXT in the PD (ShareWare too) include an *.AFM file and maybe a bitmap file (*.bmap on NeXT, dont know what it is/if it is on Mac), but no *.PFB. Do any Adobe gurus out there know what I have to do to use these fonts? (besides scrapping the PC and scoring a NeXT/Mac, I mean - I'm already working on that one :-) Thanks alot! -- Thor-Lee Legvold | ppstl@nobergen.earn (or .bitnet) University of Bergen | ppstl@cc.uib.no NORWAY | and now on NeXT... Hvor mye for datter'n din...? | me@fiol.uib.no
paul@u02.svl.cdc.com (Paul Kohlmiller) (02/19/91)
I think I know what the confusion is. On a Mac (on weird systems, who knows)
ATM wants the laser font file (what I think you call the PFB file) and the
font metrics file (AFM). The bitmap version is another file. The implication is
that ATM only works on laser fonts. It doesn't help with fonts that are
bitmapped only. There are a lot of shareware laser fonts but there are even
more bitmap-only fonts and ATM won't help with those. Also, a lot of laser
fonts do not have AFM files and I'm not sure what ATM does if the AFM file is
missing.
I hope this helps.
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