* Khaled Hosny
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:50:38PM -0700, John Magolske wrote:
Also, the SabonLT-Roman.afm file that came from Linotype has a section titled "StartKernData", but .afm files generated using type1afm, fontforge, font2afm, etc. have no kerning section. Would using such .afm files cause sub-standard output with regard to kerning?
FontForge can load mac type1 kerning, see: http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/faq.html#FOND-kern
Thanks, useful information linked there: "The mac stored kerning information in the FOND resource associated with a bitmap font (it is not stored in the file with the postscript font). If you wish kerning data for a mac postscript font, you must find a font file containing a bitmap font with the same family and style as the postscript." Reading this, I went into the directory of the font in question, found the *.bmap file and ran `fondu -afm` on it. This created afm files for all the fonts in that family, each file including a "StartKernData" section with plenty of kerning data. So I feel closer...at least I know how to create afm files that include kerning data. But unfortunately, I still can't get these fonts to work with ConTeXt. It must have something to do with the font itself, as the SabonLT-Roman.afm and SabonLT-Roman.pfb I placed in the ~/.fonts directory are working fine. John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact