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  2. From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
  4. Subject: Re: Create Fonts
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov15.224751.1629@njitgw.njit.edu>
  6. Date: 15 Nov 92 22:47:51 GMT
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  13. In article <wf1gJ8S00iUzQ37fkD@andrew.cmu.edu> sl31+@andrew.cmu.edu (Stephen M. Lacy) writes:
  14. >I'm also interested in doing this.  Is there a specification of the .pfb
  15. >format somewhere accessable, and do I have to know PostScript to be able
  16. >to program it?
  17.  
  18. The .PFB/.AFM format for fonts is an Adobe format.  They sell
  19. developer's kits.  I don't think you'll need to know the PostScript
  20. language, but you may have to know some internals of ATM, which would
  21. be documented in Adobe's kit.
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