Re: AFM files

[Reimer Behrends]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 11:15:15AM +0200, Michael Piotrowski wrote:
> Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > >However, even if your printer has an Adobe interpreter, the fonts
> > >may come from a different source and/or may be customized.
> > 
> >     I've considered extracting the AFM from my printer directly.
> 
> I don't know how this could be done.  Of course you can derive metrics
> from Type 1 fonts, but an AFM file contains more information.

True enough, but that's pretty much only the kerning pairs. If you
simply need the width and bounding box of a single character such as the
euro symbol (where you don't really need kerning information), then it's
trivial to get at the data.

[...]
> BTW, the printer CDs might also be interesting if they contain
> TrueType fonts.

Out of curiosity, why (for purposes of using them with lout), if
you have Type 1 fonts already?

                        Reimer Behrends