Re: [WinMac] Re: fonts

Milan Adamov(madamov[at]opennet.org)
Sun, 24 Jan 1999 15:27:19 +0100

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>The kerning information is in the Postscript printer font, and not in the
>PPD (Postscript Printer Description) as you stated earlier. The PPD files,
>whether on a Windows or a Mac, is a plain text file that contains the
>printer's characteristics, such as printable area, resident fonts, halftone
>screen frequencies, etc.
>

The kerning information is not in PostScript printer font, Adobe stores it
in AFM or PFM files, and on Macs that information is converted and put into
FOND resource in bitmap font. If you need kerning on Windows, you must have
PFM file in the same directory where PFB font file is.

Milan
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