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Postscript
Type1
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CID
keyed fonts
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AFM
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PFM
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NTF
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This format is supposed to replace the pfm files above in windows >2000.
I can't find any docs on it.
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BDF
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True Type Standard
(Sadly different sources have slightly different definitions of less important
parts of the standard, be warned)
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OpenType
(postscript embedded in a truetype wrapper)
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Postscript
Type42 (the opposite of opentype, it's truetype embedded in postscript)
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SVG 1.1 fonts
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Macintosh font formats
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Windows raster font formats
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X11 pcf format
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TeX font formats
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OpenDoc.
Sadly Proprietary so I shan't support it.
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Acorn
RISC OS font format (these fonts are often zipped up with a non-standard
zip).
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Ikarus IK format is documented in Peter Karow's book Digital Formats for
Typefaces, Appendices G&I. (copies may still be available from
URW++)
Interestingly the exact format of a curve is up to the interpretation program.
Other font links
Font editor concepts
Karow, Peter, 1994, Font Technology, Description and Tools
Karow, Peter, 1987, Digital Formats for Typefaces
Hoenig, Alan TeX Unbound: LaTeX and TeX Strategies for Fonts, Graphics
& More
Knuth, Donald, 1979, TeX and METAFONT, New Directions in Typesetting