>> Which font do you suggest I use for the hard-coded font value?
>> Whatever's chosen, I'll need a suitable AFM for the WX value.
> 
>   Times or Palatino.  Both come with PostScript printers and PDF viewers, so you don't have to embed them.  And both come with italic and bold.
> 
>   You can either use the AFM files that come with the replacement fonts from ghostscript (they should be compatible, metrics-wise), or I can send you the original Adobe AFM files.  If I recall correctly, they are (were?) free.

Dieter, please do.

Enclosed is a fully proportional-width PostScript file using Charter (as
found in the aforementioned directory).  Quite nice, no?

For the time being, I absolutely need the AFM files to get the glyph
widths.  I don't want to be parsing font files with each invocation
until we really have to.

Thanks,

Kristaps