Re: AFMs on CTAN

["Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu>]

Lars Hellstr{\"o}m <Lars.Hellstrom@math.umu.se> asks on Fri, 30 Apr
1999 12:10:51 +0200 about AFM files on CTAN.  

While I cannot answer the questions about their past existence on
CTAN, I can point you to sources on the Internet.  Start at

	http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/fonts/index.html

This will lead to an index of 20,623+ fonts at

	http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/fonts/fonts-to-vendors.html

For Adobe fonts, look in

	ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/mac/all/afmfiles/
	ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/dos/all/afmfiles/
	ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/win/all/afmfiles/

Please note that while some vendors (e.g., Adobe) allow their AFM
files to be freely distributed, provided that they are not modified,
others do not (e.g., Bitstream).  Bitstream afm files contain the
significant line:

Comment Confidential and proprietary to Bitstream Inc.

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