Bug#186354: Missing afm files for many fonts
Package: tetex-extra
Version: 2.0-1
The tetex-extra package installs the Blue Sky Computer Modern fonts,
but not the associated afm files. For example, it ships:
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmss17.pfb
But there is no afm for this font to be found. I figured that maybe
the information was contained in there somehow, but pf2afm generated an
afm which did not include kerning information. I was trying to use
freetype which requires an afm file for every pfb to get the kerning
table.
The canonical version of these fonts I found here:
http://www.ams.org/tex/type1-fonts.html
Which includes the afm files. It seems that afm files do not exist
for many of the fonts in tetex-extra. I think that tetex-extra should
include them. This machine is using debian unstable.
Thanks,
-Billy
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