[R] postscriptFonts

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Well, yes, you do need an afm file, as it says.

On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Roland Kaiser wrote:

> Hi,
> I have problems creating a new mapping for a postscript font.
> I want to use the font-family <TheSans> from Luc(as) de Groot.
>
> The font only holds a .PFM file but no .afm file.
> The. PFM looks similary to those in grDevices\afm

It does not to me: it looks like postscript code.  You need a program
called pfm2afm or the ghostscript script pf2afm to do the conversion.

> When i use postcriptFont(), i get an error!
> ivalid font metric information in PostScript font specification
>
> (I copied the original .PFM as .afm into the grDevices\afm folder. I use
> the Windows version)
>
> ?
½ %!PS-AdobeFont-1.0: TheSans-5Regular 1.0
> %%CreationDate: Thu Jun 13 22:27:21 2002
> %%VMusage: 120000 150000
> 11 dict begin
> /FontInfo 14 dict dup begin
> /version (1.0) readonly def
> /Notice (Copr. Luc as de Groot 1994) readonly def
> /FullName (TheSans 5 Regular) readonly def
> /FamilyName (TheSans) readonly def
> /ItalicAngle 0 def
> /isFixedPitch false def
> /UnderlinePosition -150 def
> /UnderlineThickness 20 def
> /Weight (Regular) readonly def
> end readonly def
> /FontName /TheSans-5Regular def
> /Encoding StandardEncoding def
> /PaintType 0 def
> /FontType 1 def
> /FontMatrix [ 0.00100 0 0 0.00100 0 0 ] readonly def
> /UniqueID 4001163 def
> /FontBBox {-62 -433 1758 1170} readonly def
> currentdict end
> currentfile
> ...
>
> thanx for answers
>
> roland
>
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