* Khaled Hosny <khaledho...@eglug.org> [100829 08:37]: > 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
Thanks, useful information linked there: "The mac stored kerning information in the FOND resource associated with a bitmap font (it is not stored in the file with the postscript font). If you wish kerning data for a mac postscript font, you must find a font file containing a bitmap font with the same family and style as the postscript." Reading this, I went into the directory of the font in question, found the *.bmap file and ran `fondu -afm` on it. This created afm files for all the fonts in that family, each file including a "StartKernData" section with plenty of kerning data. So I feel closer...at least I know how to create afm files that include kerning data. But unfortunately, I still can't get these fonts to work with ConTeXt. It must have something to do with the font itself, as the SabonLT-Roman.afm and SabonLT-Roman.pfb I placed in the ~/.fonts directory are working fine. John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
