[OS X TeX] font appearance

Siep siepo at cybercomm.nl
Mon Jun 24 16:39:11 EDT 2002



On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 09:00:52 -0400
William Adams <wadams at atlis.com> wrote:

> Thomas Schroeder said:
> >But if I remember correctly, .pfb fonts won't work in older versions of 
> >Windows by themselves, they must be accompanied by, I think, .pcm
> files. 
> >Maybe I'll give it another shot sometime...
> 
> .pfm (Postscript Font Metric). This was a binary format cooked up by
> Aldus and Microsoft.
> 
> ATM can construct a .pfm from a .afm / .inf pair, but I'm not aware of
> any other readily available software which does that.
> 
> William

There is a very old free DOS utility refont that can construct pfm from
afm.

Siep

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