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Russell Goodman
Russell Goodman
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Do we really need .AFM files anymore in OSX?

Aug 11, 2010 10:46 AM

Just going through and cleaning up the Font Library at my new workplace. All our work stations are Macs using OSX and Suitcase to manage our fonts. Is there any reason these days to save the .AFM files associated with our Macintosh Type 1 fonts?

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  • Ken Lunde
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    1. Ken Lunde,
    Aug 24, 2010 7:18 AM   in reply to Russell Goodman
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    I don't think that Mac OS X, or even Mac OS, ever used the AFM files for anything.

     
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    2. Russell Goodman,
    Aug 24, 2010 3:01 PM   in reply to Ken Lunde
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    Ken:

     

    I didn't think so, either. But many of these font packages seem old and dating back to the pre OSX days, and they are Mac fonts, not Windows, so I'm wondering what they were even used for.

     
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