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2 Basic terminology

There are many different font formats and associated font file suffixes. A few that will be addressed here are:

.pfa, .pfb: PostScript® type 1 fonts. The .pfa is the Ascii form and .pfb the Binary form.
.afm: The font metrics associated with a type 1 font.
.pfm: The printer font metrics associated with a type 1 font.
.ttf: A TrueType® font
.fot: An indirect reference to a TrueType font (not an actual font)
.fon, .fnt: Bitmapped screen fonts

The .fot file is used by Windows® as sort of a symbolic link to the actual TrueType font (.ttf) file. The .fon font files are also used by Windows. I know of no way to use this font format with FreeBSD.

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