PFM2KPX
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NAME
pfm2kpx - extract correct kerning information from
pfm
(Printer Font Metrics) files
SYNOPSIS
pfm2kpx [options]
pfm
DESCRIPTION
Many PostScript Type1 fonts contain only
pfb and
pfm files, but no
afm (Adobe Font Metrics) files. These can be
generated with
pf2afm (which comes with
GhostScript), but
this might not yield all kerning pairs from the
pfm file. The reason
for this is that
pf2afm interprets
"dfCharSet = 0x00" to mean that
the Adobe StandardEncoding has been used, whereas many fonts (or font
creation tools) instead use the Windows
ANSI (aka codepage 1252) encoding.
(You know you've hit this problem when
pf2afm complains "
".notdef
character ocurred among kern pairs -- you'd better check the resulting
AFM file"".) In this case, the resulting
afm is incomplete and contains
wrong kerning pairs.
pfm2kpx extracts the correct kerning pairs from such pfm files and
repairs the afm (if necessary creating it first by running pf2afm).
If for some reason it can't update the afm, it prints the kerning pairs to
"stdout" instead.
When pf2afm doesn't complain about the kerning pairs, pfm2kpx
thinks the resulting afm file is fine and quits; this can be
changed by specifying the -f option (see below).
OPTIONS
- -f
-
Force updating of the afm file, even if pf2afm doesn't complain.
SEE ALSO
pf2afm (part of GhostScript),
afm2afm,
autoinst,
cmap2enc,
font2afm,
ot2kpx.
AUTHOR
Marc Penninga <
marc@penninga.info>
HISTORY
- 2005-02-17
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First version
- 2005-02-18
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Added "binmode PFM" to make pfm2kpx work on Windows platforms
- 2005-03-08
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Input files searched via kpsewhich (where available)
- 2005-03-14
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Rewrote some of the code to make it more robust, added the -f option
- 2005-03-15
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Input files searched using kpsewhich or findtexmf
- 2005-04-29
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Improved the documentation
- 2005-05-24
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Bugfix.
- 2005-07-29
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Some updates to the documentation.
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- SEE ALSO
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- AUTHOR
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- HISTORY
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