t1asm
assemble PostScript Type 1 font
see also :
t1disasm - t1ascii - t1binary - t1unmac - t1mac
Synopsis
t1asm
[-a|-b] [-l
length] [input [output]]
add an example, a script, a trick and tips
examples
% t1asm Utopia-Regular.raw > Utopia-Regular.pfb
% t1asm -a Utopia-Regular.raw > Utopia-Regular.pfa
description
t1asm
assembles Adobe Type 1 font programs into either PFA
(hexadecimal) or PFB (binary) formats from a human-readable
form. If the file output is not specified output goes
to the standard output. If the file input is not
specified input comes from the standard input.
t1asm
tokenizes the charstring data and performs eexec and
charstring encryption as specified in the
’’black book,’’ Adobe Type 1 Font
Format.
The input must
have a line of the form
/-|{string currentfile exch
readstring pop}executeonly def
which defines the command, in
this case ’-|’, that is to start
charstring data. It is an error not to define such a
command. Another common name for this command is
’RD’.
After the start
of the Subrs array in the input, all open braces
’{’ not in a comment begin a charstring. Such a
charstring is terminated by the next non-comment close brace
’}’. Within such a charstring, only comments,
integers, and valid charstring commands are allowed. Valid
charstring command names can be found in Adobe Type 1
Font Format and other documents describing the newer
Type 2 opcodes. The format within a charstring is
unimportant as long as integers and commands are separated
by at least a one whitespace (space, tab, newline)
character. Note that within charstrings, comments are
discarded because they cannot be encoded.
options
--pfa,
-a
Output in PFA (ASCII)
format.
--pfb,
-b
Output in PFB (binary) format.
This is the default.
--block-length=num,
-l num
PFB only: Set the maximum
output block length to num. The default length is as
large as memory allows.
--line-length=num,
-l num
PFA only: Set the maximum
length of encrypted lines in the output to num.
(These are the lines consisting wholly of hexadecimal
digits.) The default is 64.
see also
t1disasm ,
t1ascii , t1binary , t1unmac ,
t1mac
Adobe Type 1
Font Format is available free from Adobe as a PDF file.
http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/PDFS/TN/T1_SPEC.PDF
The Type 2
Charstring Format, also available from Adobe as a PDF
file, describes the newer Type 2 operators, which are also
used in some multiple-master Type 1 fonts like Adobe Jenson
and Kepler.
http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/PDFS/TN/5177.Type2.pdf
authors
Lee
Hetherington (ilh[:at:]lcs.mit[:dot:]edu)
Eddie Kohler (ekohler[:at:]gmail[:dot:]com)