Ada binding to Adobe font metrics file reader available

Ada binding to Adobe font metrics file reader available

[Alex Blakemore]

Greg is right, it is embarrasing how little Ada source is available 
over the Internet.  For all these reuse centers, is there a single
ftp site specializing in Ada? I dont know about most people, but I find
scanning SIMTEL to be slow and tedious compared to scanning the University
Internet web.

Anyway, here's a small contribution.

I have developed an Ada binding to Adobe's AFM parser.
It has been tested and works, but because of C/Ada clashes,
doesnt yet handle some of the more exotic AFM info like composite characters.
But its quite capable of getting the character width and kerning info which
is all most applications need.

I hope to improve it before making it available via ftp somewhere, but
will mail it to anyone who asks.  A pure Ada version would be nice, but
I dont have time/need to do that now.
If there are enough requests, I will place it on some ftp site as is.
Does anyone know of an ftp site where this would be appropriate?

OK, so all you people writing commercial page layout programs in Ada,
can get a little leg up :)
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