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Paul: Check out the DTPforum for PD Mac Type 1 PostScript fonts. The 3 files you mentioned are as follows: AFM's contain spacing and kerning information ONLY (comparable to PPage's metric files) ATM fonts… hmmm, not too sure what they might be. Could be outline fonts, but more likely, they're small bitmap fonts used by ATM (Adobe Type Manager) when it can't scale small fonts from the actual outlines properly. NFNT files are the newest of 2 kinds of Mac bitmap screen fonts (the other format, called FONT, is very old and rarely used). None of these file formats conatin an actual outline font. What you're looking for is a Type 1 PostScript (outline) font. On the Mac, there are no real extensions for these files (like .AFM or NFNT), so you'll just have to look in the file descriptions for "Type 1" or "outline". You might be able to find the IBM versions of these fonts here as well, but I wouldn't recommend using them for a variety of reasons too complicated to go into now. If you're still having trouble finding Mac fonts, let me know and I'll hunt around myself for them. Gary – Mirror Image Prod. (416) 495-7469, via WHAP!