Postscript font metrics?

[Steve Holden]

Paul Winkler wrote:
> 
> I need to generate some nice Postscript output from a python script,
> and I'm finding that I need to get at the font metrics info from the
> .afm files so I can place things correctly. (Either that or write
> *everything* in postscript -- no way!!)
> 
> I can't find anything like this on Parnassus. Anyone ever seen any
> python code that gets the useful info from .afm files?
> 
> If not, I might have a go at hacking the relevant parts of the Perl
> PostScript-Font-1.02 module into Python... but then I'll have to
> (yuck) read someone else's Perl code, which I haven't done in a
> looong time and I was never that good at it.
> 
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Have you considered using PIDDLE for your PostScript output?

I recently used it to generate PDF files, but PostScript is another
possible backend.  It's impressive, and will compute string lengths
for you to allow "typesetting"-style outputs.  Take a look at

	http://piddle.sourceforge.net

Hope this helps.

regards
 Steve

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