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Re: manual for ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/?



Besides the documentation mentioned by Rowland in his response, there
is some discussion of PostScript and TeX font metrics in 

	texlive3/texmf/doc/html/dvips/dvips_6.html#SEC65

A search at 

	http://www.adobe.com/cgi-bin/AT/AT-search.cgi

for "FONT METRIC FILES SPECIFICATION" turns up a number of documents.

The AFM specification can be found at

	ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/devrelations/devtechnotes/pdffiles/5004.afm_spec.pdf

It looks like Adobe has been converting their old PostScript files to
PDF, since the parallel ..../psfiles directory is almost empty.

Documentation on TeX .tfm files is in the two famous books, ``TeX: The
Program'' (Chapter 30), and ``Metafont: The Program'' (Chapter 45).

Under OS/2, there are .ofm font metric files, but perhaps their use is
fast waning.

At 

	http://partners.adobe.com/supportservice/devrelations/typeforum/tchntlist.html

I found this:

	5178 Building PFM Files for PostScript-Language CJK Fonts (PDF: 148 KB
	/ 44 pages) Specifies the PostScript-language extensions for CID-keyed
	fonts that were added in PostScript version 2015. Describes additional
	CIDFontTypes to those specified in the CID specfication.

However, the link to it leads to an non-existent file.  You can find
it at

	ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/devrelations/devtechnotes/pdffiles/5178.PFM.pdf

On viewing it briefy, I find that it has a very clear description of
the .pfm file format.

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