
Host-Installed, Printer-Resident, and Embedded Fonts
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PFM les in the following paths, the rst of which corresponds to the horizontal PFM le,
and the second of which corresponds to its vertical counterpart:
C:\PSFONTS\STSONGLI\METRICS\GKEUC_H.PFM
C:\PSFONTS\STSONGLI\METRICS\GKEUC_V.PFM
e following is an example [PostScript] section from a WIN.INI le, and includes the
lines added for the preceding two PFM les:
[PostScript, \\SJ TW 7\panda]
softfonts=2
softfont1=C:\PSFONTS\STSONGLI\METRICS\GKEUC_H.PFM
softfont2=C:\PSFONTS\STSONGLI\METRICS\GKEUC_V.PFM
Note that the keyword “sofonts” indicates the number of sofont entries, which, in this
case, is two. Note that when you register the PFMs by editing the WIN.INI le, you are in-
forming the PostScript driver that the fonts are resident on the printer hard disk or other-
wise available on the PostScript printer. More detailed information on installing PFM les
can be found in the document entitled CID-Keyed Font Compatibility with ATM Soware
(Adobe Systems Technical Note #5175).
Of course, when dealing with OpenType fonts, and given the fact that they are well sup-
ported in Windows XP and Windows Vista, the need to work with PFM les has signi-
cantly diminished.
Unix and Linux
Unix (and Linux) have historically been plagued with relatively poor support for outline
font formats, especially when compared to Mac OS, Mac OS X, and the ...