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ABF - Adobe Binary Screen Font


         Type: bitmap font
    Extension: abf
      Version: 2.0
  Compression: None
  Color Depth:
   Maintainer: Adobe Systems
Specification: http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/devrelations/PDFS/TN/5006.ABF_Spec.pdf

ABF is Adobe Systems' binary screen font format. ABF is, in fact, the binary
version of the Adobe's ASCII-based Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF).
Each ABF file is a sequence of 8-, 16-, or 32-bit words in either big- or
little-endian order. Each file stores information for one font.

The specification for the ABF format is:

  Adobe Binary Screen Font Files Specification (Version 2.0),
    Adobe Developer Support, 31 March 1992, P/N LPS5006.
   
This document available via FTP as a Tech Note in PostScript format, 
or as hardcopy when obtained directly from Adobe (see the PostScript
section for information on how to contact Adobe Systems, Inc.).



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