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- From: jhrv@tao.cpe.uchicago.edu (John Kim)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 and fonts (ATM, etc.)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.004332.26829@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- Organization: Center for Population Economics
- References: <16B61EBBA.X049BC@tamvm1.tamu.edu> <enk2.89.728002534@po.cwru.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:43:32 GMT
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- In article <enk2.89.728002534@po.cwru.edu> enk2@po.cwru.edu (Erik Kovach) writes:
- >In article <16B61EBBA.X049BC@tamvm1.tamu.edu> X049BC@tamvm1.tamu.edu writes:
- >>I am a VERY happy OS/2 user, tinkerer, geek, and wanted to add a efw more
- >>fonts to OS/2. I know it uses the Adobe Type Manager, but all I see advertised
- >>are ATM windows fonts! Will these work for OS/2 PM, Describe, etc.?
- >
- >It is my understanding that OS/2 itself uses ATM Type One fonts, while
- >Windows (and therefore WIN-OS/2) uses ATM Type Two fonts. So NO, they
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >are not compatable. Check around FTP sites (namely hobbes.nmsu.edu and such)
- >for Type One Fonts.
-
- There ain't no such thing. Do you know what you're talking about?
-
- To answer the original question, yes, you can use the same fonts
- (Adobe Type 1 PFB format) for windows atm, winos2 atm, and os/2 atm
- (and the various ports of gnu ghostscript, for that matter). One
- difference is that you need the corresponding .afm (adobe font metric)
- files for OS/2 atm, while win atm and winos2 atm look for .pfm files
- (ghostscript doesn't use font metric files). You can obtain most of
- the .afm files you need from ps-file-server@adobe.com (this is a mail
- server. Send a message that says "help" to get help).
-
-