NAME
afm2afm - reencode an afm file
SYNOPSIS
afm2afm -e encoding [-o output] afmfile
DESCRIPTION
This program reencodes an afm file. It's mainly intended to be used
with afm files that were extracted from TrueType or OpenType fonts,
since these are often too big to be handled with tools like fontinst
(Adobe's CaflischScriptPro-Regular font, for example, contains 1289
glyphs and 278678 kerning pairs, leading to an afm file of nearly 9MB).
Glyphs that are absent from the chosen encoding aren't written to the
output, which yields much smaller output files.
The program also generates an entry for a dvips-style map file.
OPTIONS
Option names were chosen to match those of ttf2afm.
-e encoding
Reencode using the encoding given in file encoding.
-o output
Write the reencoded afm to file output instead of "stdout". The
mapfile entry will still be written to "stdout".
FILES
All input files are searched using kpsewhich or findtexmf when these
commands are available; otherwise only the current working directory is
searched.
SEE ALSO
autoinst, cmap2enc, font2afm, ot2kpx, pfm2kpx.
AUTHOR
Marc Penninga <marc@penninga.info>
HISTORY
2005-01-10 First version
2005-01-25 Added printing of mapfile entry
2005-02-18 Rewrote some of the code
2005-03-08 Input files searched via kpsewhich (where available)
2005-03-15 Input files searched using kpsewhich or findtexmf (if
available)
2005-04-15 Updated creation of mapfile entry; look for font file to
deduce the correct font file format (pfb, pfa, ttf). If no
font file is found, pfb is assumed.
2005-04-20 Program quits if the specified output file exists
2005-04-29 Improved the documentation
2005-07-29 Some updates to the documentation
2006-01-12 A few minor changes to the code