Help with AFM and PFB files!

[Josh]

I just purchased a font that was listed as being a Windows Postscript font.
Beforehand, I searched for some free Postscript fonts to test and see if my
system would recognize. Worked fine.... however, the file in the test font
was a .PFM file that Windows recognizes. How can I get these .AFM and .PFB
files to a state that I can use them with general Windows applications? Is
there a way to convert either into a .PFM or .TTF file?

Please Help!!!
Thanks,
Josh

[James Richard Tyrer]

For a Type 1 font, you need two files: either a PFA or PFB and AFM or
PFM, I think that Windows normally uses a PFB and a PFM.

To use Type 1 on Windows you might need to download the free version of
Adobe Type Manager from Adobe.

I wouldn't recommend conversion, they don't look very good.

JRT

[Henry Churchyard]

In article <Hslu7.3748$6i7.8...@e420r-atl1.usenetserver.com>,
Josh <jo...@who.net> wrote:

> I just purchased a font that was listed as being a Windows
> Postscript font. Beforehand, I searched for some free Postscript
> fonts to test and see if my system would recognize. Worked
> fine.... however, the file in the test font was a .PFM file that
> Windows recognizes. How can I get these .AFM and .PFB files to a
> state that I can use them with general Windows applications?

Adobe Type Manager can take a combination of an .AFM file and an .INF
file together to create a .PFM file on the fly when installing, but it
doesn't convert a solitary .AFM file on its own to .PFM (see
http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/type/ftypes.html etc. etc.).
Sounds like you're missing the .INF file; complain to the vendor about
that. The .INF file is actually a short little text file that you
could theoretically generate by hand by guesstimating a few parameters
(but I don't know all the details that would be involved).

--%!PS
10 10 scale/M{rmoveto}def/R{rlineto}def 12 45 moveto 0 5 R 4 -1 M 5.5 0 R
currentpoint 3 sub 3 90 0 arcn 0 -6 R 7.54 10.28 M 2.7067 -9.28 R -5.6333
2 setlinewidth 0 R 9.8867 8 M 7 0 R 0 -9 R -6 4 M 0 -4 R stroke showpage
% Henry Churchyard chu...@usa.net http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/

[RSD99]

In the "Unix World" there is also a program called AFM2PFM that can make a
"reasonable" Windows metrics (pfm) file. If you look "far-and-wide," you
might be able to find a Windows executable. [Sorry, I don't currently have.]

HTH

"Henry Churchyard" <chu...@crossmyt.com> wrote in message
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[Klaus Mueller]

On Wed, 03 Oct 2001 15:52:57 GMT, "RSD99" <rsd...@NOSPAM.net> wrote:

>In the "Unix World" there is also a program called AFM2PFM that can make a
>"reasonable" Windows metrics (pfm) file. If you look "far-and-wide," you
>might be able to find a Windows executable. [Sorry, I don't currently have.]

found: CrossFont converts AFM 2 PFM.

CrossFont is a Windows 95/98/NT utility for moving PostScript Type1
and TrueType fonts between Macintosh and PC platforms. Character
outlines, metrics and hinting are not touched. Select a topic below:
Acute Systems: www.asy.com

Regards,
--
Klaus Mueller, Hamburg