Bug 691936 - AFM files missing
Summary: AFM files missing
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fonts
Classification: Unclassified
Component: free URW (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Linux
: P4 normal
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Reported: 2011-02-06 18:27 UTC by Werner Lemberg
Modified: 2011-02-06 18:58 UTC (History)
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Description Werner Lemberg 2011-02-06 18:27:59 UTC 
In version 9.00, there exists a directory

  Resource/Font

which contains the standard URW Type 1 fonts with long names.  However, a
directory

  Resource/AFM

which holds the corresponding AFM files is missing.  Why?

While I agree that gs itself doesn't need AFM files, they are nevertheless an intergral part of the Type 1 fonts IMHO.

I strongly suggest to add the AFM files again.
Comment 1 Ray Johnston 2011-02-06 18:58:18 UTC 
We don't want to distribute files that are not needed for running Ghostscript.
The URW fonts are a separate distribution (with different file names) and
these do have .afm files in case applications use them.

I really don't think applications use, or trust, AFM files anymore since so
many fonts don't have them and the move is to TT and OpenType fonts.