On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Eric W. Sink wrote: > Yes, the afm files are very, very necessary. They provide the font metrics > which are used for the purpose of text layout. Printing would be > impossible without those metrics. I'm going to sound like a newbie here, but why isn't it possible (as I read on DejaNews just now) to generate afm's from pfa's? You could at least generate approximated font metrics, albeit perhaps without kerning info... > I should describe our restriction to Type1 fonts as being a "current" > restriction. There is no reason why AbiWord could not be extended to > support TrueType, for example. We have no immediate plans to do so, but it > could be done. A stopgap solution would be to convert them to pfa+afm. A page at http://www.netspace.net.au/~mheath/ttf2pt1/ has a utility to do this, apparently. I haven't tried it myself. My main concern with the AbiWord fonts right now is that they're uglifying my Netscape browsing. When you use 'xset +fp', does X search for fonts beginning at the last +fp and moving backwards?
