Re: [ft-devel] Understanding Type1 fonts

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Donn" <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 09 January 2008 11:11:00 Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> > AFM and PFM files also may contain kerning data which is not
> > available in .pfa/.pfb files.
> Okay so potentially, -1 on the vote. Making AFM and PFM important again.
>
> How important do you thing that extra data is on a modern Gnu/Linux system. 
> Without going into C code, to what extent does Freetype work around when it 
> does not find a metric file for a given font file?

FreeType doesn't care about additional data in afm/pfm files, it's applications
and users who care. For instance a decent typesetting application must require
reasonable metrics and kerning data to be available for professional fonts.

--
Dmitry.