Hello, Not sure if this is the right list to ask this on, but I am pretty confused about Type1 fonts in general and have to start somewhere.
I'm developing a small app called Fonty Python and have made some assumptions based on the files I found on my Kubuntu system and on (scrappy) web searches. Here's my basic approach to 'installing' fonts, any comments would be appreciated: .PFB files I assume these to contain actual glyphs, i.e. they can be drawn. If it's just a lone .PFB file, it gets linked into ~/.fonts .PFM files When I find one in the same folder, with the same name as a .PFB (sans extension), I couple it together with the .PFB and place both files into ~/.fonts I ignore all .PFM files that do not have a matching .PFB partner. .PFA files These are a new twist, just found one today. I do not know if they also get matched with some metric file. I see many .AFM files around and in one folder: /usr/share/enscript/afm/ I found a font 'matrix.pfa' which also has 'matrix.afm'. So, am I right to do the same for the .PFA & .AFM partnership? Essentially: Is an AFM or a PFM file needed *at all*? Can I simply focus on PFB and PFA files and link then into ~/.fonts and call that font 'installed"? I suspect that libs like freetype get other data from the 'surrounding' files to better draw the glyphs and I want to match the correct files together. Any help would be splendid. \d -- I have a low-traffic blog for basic news: http://otherwiseingle.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel