(a2ps.info)Fonts Description Files

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5.3.2 Fonts Description Files
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There are two kinds of data a2ps needs to use a font:
   - the AFM file ('FONT-KEY.afm'), which describes the metrics
     information corresponding to FONT;

   - in the case FONT is not known from the printer, the PFA or PFB file
     which is down loaded to the printer.  These files are actually the
     PostScript programs which execution produces the characters to be
     drawn on the page, in this FONT.