On Fri, 28 May 2004, Aaron Mulder wrote: > Okay, so far so good. Can you take an existing font in the system > and adjust it based on the AFM metrics? For instance, if my AFM file is > for "Times" and my system has some close but perhaps not exact match, > could I just massage the existing font so the metrics match?
No, at the moment java has no support for AFM files. > Also, Font.createFont says that it only supports TrueType fonts, > but you mention that Java supports Type 1 too -- how would I load a Type 1 > font? JDK1.5 adds support for Type 1 fonts in Font.createFont. (Have a look at beta release at java.sun.com) In previous versions of jdk public API provides only possibility to request installed type 1 font by family name. > And heck, if you'll bear with me for one more, what's the > difference between TTF and TTC or PFA and PFB? TTC - is collection of TrueType fonts PFA and PFB are just different representations of Type 1 fonts. (Ascii and binary. Ascii is platform independent one.) -igor =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA2D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
