goafm

A Go library for parsing Adobe Font Metrics (AFM) files. Supports the full specification.

Adobe Font Metrics (AFM) files provide information about the size, position, and spacing of characters in a font. They are used by software applications to correctly display text using a specific font. The goafm library provides a convenient way to parse AFM files and extract the information they contain.

Features

Parsing & extraction of the following information:

• Font metrics
• Character metrics
• Kerning pairs
• Track kerning
• Composites Characters

Installation

Use go get to install the library:

go get github.com/Sett17/goafm

Usage

ParseFile takes in a filename and returns a FontMetric pointer and an error.

Parse takes in a byte slice and returns a FontMetric pointer and an error.

package main

import (
  "fmt"

  "github.com/Sett17/goafm"
)

func main() {
  font, err := goafm.ParseFile("font.afm")
  if err != nil {
    panic(err)
  }
  fmt.Printf("%#v", font)
}