Bug#689837: Acknowledgement (Please register the psnfss fonts with fontconfig)

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

On So, 07 Okt 2012, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> On second thought, this approach will miss the .afm files. I am not yet
> sure what to do with them, as some are duplicated in adobe/ and urw/
> directories, respectively. What exactly is their purpose, are they
> required at all?

afm files provides the metrics for the characters, without them
the display looks bad. The X server (at least at some point int
the past) searched for the afm files in the same directory as
the pfb/pfa files.

Best wishes

Norbert
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Norbert Preining            preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org}
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