From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Postscript Type1 fonts & MK IV
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 10:23:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100829082327.GA2163@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100829065038.GA1363@s70206.gridserver.com>
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:50:38PM -0700, John Magolske wrote:
>
> Also, the SabonLT-Roman.afm file that came from Linotype has a section
> titled "StartKernData", but .afm files generated using type1afm,
> fontforge, font2afm, etc. have no kerning section. Would using such
> .afm files cause sub-standard output with regard to kerning?
FontForge can load mac type1 kerning, see:
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/faq.html#FOND-kern
I think after that generating a pfb font will also generate an afm file
as well.
Regards,
Khaled
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Khaled Hosny
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
Free font developer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-29 8:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-27 23:16 John Magolske
2010-08-28 2:59 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-08-28 8:30 ` Hans Hagen
2010-08-29 6:50 ` John Magolske
2010-08-29 7:17 ` Taco Hoekwater
2010-08-29 8:11 ` John Magolske
2010-08-29 8:15 ` Taco Hoekwater
2010-08-29 8:23 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
2010-08-30 6:17 ` John Magolske
2010-08-30 9:38 ` Khaled Hosny
2010-08-31 6:27 ` Postscript Type1 fonts & MK IV - [SOLVED] John Magolske
2010-08-31 7:31 ` Taco Hoekwater
2010-08-31 9:19 ` Taco Hoekwater
2010-08-31 11:20 ` Khaled Hosny
2010-08-31 15:35 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-08-31 11:22 ` Khaled Hosny
2010-09-02 5:52 ` John Magolske
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