[Openfontlibrary] Font formats accepted by OFLB
Christopher Fynn
cfynn at gmx.net
Fri Oct 24 22:01:08 PDT 2008
Ben Weiner wrote:
...
> which are far and away going to be the most widely appreciated, then
>
> .pfa
> .pfm
> .pfb
> .afm
...
Hmm, shouldn't that be something like: either .pfb or .pfa along with
either .pfm or .afm + .inf as a minimum for non OT postscript fonts?
The font glyph outlines are either in a pfb or a pfa file while the
metrics, kerning and other info for the font are in the corresponding
pfm file or afm + inf files. So you need at least two or three files.
.pfa = postscript font ascii (Type)
.pfb = postscript font binary (Type 1)
.pfm = printer font metrics
.afm = adobe font metrics
.inf = font information file
- Chris
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