Fonts and FreeBSD: A Tutorial
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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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