> Does FreeType provide a way to parse an AFM file and extract the
> corresponding glyph metrics and kerning information, when the
> accompanying PFA/PFB file is not present?
No.
> One use case is Matplotlib's postscript backend, which can layout
> glyphs just based on their metrics but does not need the pfa/pfb
> files itself. Right now Matplotlib uses its own handwritten AFM
> parser, but it would be nice if FreeType's AFM support could be used
> instead.
Well, FreeType is a *rendering* library, i.e., its main goal is to
produce bitmaps. Scanning AFM files alone is completely useless for
FreeType; for this reason there isn't a separate API to access the
metrics data.
Werner
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