Bug#186354: Missing afm files for many fonts

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

From: Billy Biggs <vektor@dumbterm.net>
Subject: Bug#186354: Missing afm files for many fonts
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 18:10:04 -0600

>   As I said in my bug report: "I was trying to use freetype which
> requires an afm file for every pfb to get the kerning table." Freetype
> cannot read tfm files, so apps which use freetype to render fonts will
> require the afms in order to use the kerning information.  The
> xfonts-scalable package provides afm files for all of their pfb fonts.

In fact what did you want to do?  What application did you
use for freetype?

Please be more concrete.

Thanks,				2003-4-1(Tue)

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
 Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.