On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 02:44:39PM +1000, Peter B. West wrote: > > Paul, > > The files I am talking about come from the links on the AMS page - > http://www.ams.org/tex/type1-fonts.html > > I have downloaded the unix and the pc font sets. The unix set comes > with only pfb and afm files, in the pfb and afm directories > respectively. The pc download contains afm and fonts directories. The > afm directory contains afm files, and the fonts directory contains pfb > files and the pfmfiles directory. In the latter directory are the pfm > files. > > The afm files are text files, while the pfms are binary. Try using the > pfm files from the pc distribution with PFMReader. > > General questions to font gurus. Can we generate font metrics for FOP > directly from the AFM files? Do AFM and PFM files contain equivalent > information? >
Thanks for the feedback. I get the same error working with these files as I do when working with the * /pub/tex/psfonts/cm fonts. I first convert the fonts to pfm with a utilty called afm2pfm. I get a segmentation error. I then convert the pfm file to an xml metrics file using the java tool. I get no errors. But when I use the font to produce a PDF file, I get a full page break after each block of text. It is unfortunate that the ghostscript and the commputer modern fonts have something non-standard with them. They are nice fonts and the creators went through a lot of effort to produce them. As I said before, I think we need more standardization with fonts. I believe a font could be expressed as an XML file, which could be validated. This XML file could be used to then produce afm or pfb or whatever type of fonts a particular application needs. As it stands right now, fonts were not developed according to a standard, as xsl-fo was. This results in the mess I have been struggling with the past few days, and a lot of wasted effort on the part of developers and users. It is a good question on whether AFM contain the same information as PFM files. From what I've read, it seems that the AFM is the ascii equivelent of the binary PFM. Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
