Path: utzoo!dciem!array!rob From: rob@array.UUCP (Rob Marchand) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: What angle do Times-Ital. and Palatino-Ital. slant at? Message-ID: <676@array.UUCP> Date: 29 Nov 88 22:02:28 GMT Article-I.D.: array.676 References: <1822@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> Reply-To: rob@array.UUCP (Boss Hog) Organization: Array Systems Computing, Toronto, Canada Lines: 60 In article <1822@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> kibo () writes: >[] > I want to slant Times-Italic and Palatino-Italic backwards by > whatever angle they normally slant at - to produce unslanted "curly" > versions of them (like 'cmu' in TeX.) Does anyone know what angle > these two fonts slant at normally? (Many thanks.) > The information you want is in the Adobe Font Metric (AFM) files. These are available (or were in any case) from the Adobe file server (send a message containing the word 'help' to ps-file-server@adobe.com). The format of these files is described in the Adobe document AFM Files: An Interchange Format for PostScript Font Metric (v2.0) These files include a field called ItalicAngle; here's an example.... #------- Cut Here -------- Cut Here -------- Cut Here -------- Cut Here -------- StartFontMetrics 2.0 Comment Copyright (c) 1984 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Comment Creation Date:Sun Feb 8 03:54:53 PST 1987 FontName Times-Italic EncodingScheme AdobeStandardEncoding FullName Times Italic FamilyName Times Weight Medium ItalicAngle -15.5 <---- Italic Angle IsFixedPitch false UnderlinePosition -96 UnderlineThickness 48 Version 001.002 Notice Times is a trademark of Allied Corporation. FontBBox -176 -252 990 930 CapHeight 660 XHeight 446 Descender -206 Ascender 684 StartCharMetrics 228 . . . . . . . . . EndFontMetrics #------- Cut Here -------- Cut Here -------- Cut Here -------- Cut Here -------- The AFM document describes ItalicAngle as 'Global Font Information', and is (I quote :-) "Angle (in degrees counter-clockwise from the vertical) of the dominant vertical strokes of the font." Hope that this helps! Cheers, Rob Marchand rob@array.UUCP -- Rob Marchand UUCP : {mnetor,utzoo}!lsuc!array!rob Array Systems Computing ARPA : rob%array.UUCP@uunet.UU.NET 200-5000 Dufferin Street Phone : +1(416)736-0900 Fax: (416)736-4715 Downsview, Ont CANADA M3H 5T5 Telex : 063666 (CNCP EOS TOR) .TO 21:ARY001