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- From: enk2@po.cwru.edu (Erik Kovach)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 and fonts (ATM, etc.)
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:18:00 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University
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- In article <1993Jan26.004332.26829@midway.uchicago.edu> jhrv@tao.cpe.uchicago.edu (John Kim) writes:
- >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).
-
- I thought it was this way because I have different files for the two.
- All you need is the different AFM/PFM files. I stand corrected. Thanks.
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