[texhax] fontinst: .AFM (only .PFB and .PFM at hand)

[juan mari alberdi]

Hello Ulrich,

You can download afm files for Galliard from the Adobe ftp server

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

Galliard files are number 017 (roman, bold, italic, bolditalic) and number  
192 (black, black italic, ultra, ultra italic). You can find more  
information at the address

http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/opentype/index_archives.html

Well, at least at that address.

Juan



On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:41:58 +0100, Ulrich <Zarathustra at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install the ITC Galliard font that is shipped with ATM.
> Unfortunately, only the .PFB files are present, the .AFM's are missing.
> I tried to make .AFM's from the .PFB's with 'makeafm' which produces
> considerably smaller .AFM's (some info is missing in that files) and
> 'pfm2afm' which produces .AFM's out of .PFM's.
>     Now, when I try to make .TFM (and other) files from that with
> 'fontinst' (no difference if .AFM's have been made with 'makeafm' or with
> 'pfm2afm'), I only get .FD files, but no others (also the produced
> pgl-rec-tex files is 0 bytes).
>     I used the Fontinstallationguide (by Philip Lehmann) and the guide  
> that
> comes with 'fontinst', and done everything exactly as described. Because  
> I
> read somewhere that it's nearly impossible to install a font when no .AFM
> files are included, I think that that's the problem; 'pfm2afm' doesn't  
> make
> useful .AFM's.
>
> Is there somebody in TeX userland that has experiences with that matter?
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Namastè!
> Ulrich



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