I'm not entirely sure.  I can tell you that it only contains Mac resource
fork info.  The data fork side of it is empty.  The "Postscript Type 1 font"
is the description I get when using the mac finder to get info on it.

Delton Reames
Developer
Baseview Products
http://www.baseview.com

On 2/26/03 11:46 AM, "Paulo Soares" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> What is precisely the third item "Postscript Type 1 font"?
> 
> Best Regards,
> Paulo Soares
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:    Delton Reames [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent:    Wednesday, February 26, 2003 16:20
>> To:    [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject:    [iText-questions] Font question?
>> 
>> I have need to include a font in a PDF but cannot get things to work out.
>> I've read Chapter 9 of the tutorial at least 10 times and searched the
>> entire archives but cannot find the answers I need.
>> 
>> I have 3 files that comprise a font that were given to me by client.  They
>> are a Mac font suitcase, a .afm, and a Postscript Type 1 font.  I have
>> tried
>> various things to get iText to recognize the font, but get a variety of
>> errors.  What I thought was the most obvious solution was to use the .afm
>> as
>> described at the bottom of chapter 9 of the tutorial.  Unfortunately when
>> I
>> pass fontX.afm to BaseFont.createFont(), I get a file not found error for
>> fontX.pfb.  I don't have a .pfb.  I've seen mention of how to create a
>> .pfb
>> if you have a .pfa, but I don't have that either.  Is this the correct
>> route
>> to go?  Or, should I be using one of the other components of the font that
>> the client gave to me, and if so, how?
>> 
>> TIA,
>> 
>> Delton Reames
>> Developer
>> Baseview Products
>> http://www.baseview.com
>> 
>> 
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