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Name Adobe PostScript Font Metrics file
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Identifiers PUID:  fmt/509
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Description Part of the PostScript Type 1 font format family. On Windows, Type 1 fonts consist of a PostScript Font Binary (.PFB) file, plus a corresponding PostScript Font Metrics (.PFM) file. (Some very old Type 1 fonts may ship with a .PFB, .AFM, and .INF file. Installing such fonts will create a .PFM file from the .AFM and .INF files.)
Orientation Binary
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Related file formats None.
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Developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated
Supported by Adobe Systems Incorporated
Source The Borthwick Institute for Archives / The Borthwick Institute for Archives
Source date 26 Feb 2013
Source description Descriptive text extracted from here: http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/info/formats.html
Last updated 26 Feb 2013
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