NAME
ps2pk - creates a TeX pkfont from a type1 PostScript font
SYNOPSIS
ps2pk [ -v ] [ -eenc ] [ -Xxres ] [ -Eexpansion ] [ -Sslant ] [
-Ppointsize ] [ -Rbaseres ] [ -raspectratio ] [ -Yyres ] [ -aAFMfile ]
[ -mmodename ] type1 [pkfont]
DESCRIPTION
This program renders a given type1 PostScript font at a given pointsize
(default 10.0 points) and resolution (default 300dpi) into a TeX
pkfont.
To generate the pkfont ps2pk needs a valid type1 font file (for example
Utopia-Regular, Utopia-Regula.pfb or Utopia-Regula.pfa) and its
corresponding AFM-file (Utopia-Regular.afm) with the font metrics. The
program accepts both the binary type1 format (Utopia-Regula.pfb) and
its ASCII equivalent (Utopia-Regular or Utopia-Regula.pfa). To locate
the files, ps2pk uses the kpathsea library (see the info page on
kpathsea). Additionally, pfb and pfa files are searched for in the
directory specified in the environment variable T1INPUTS, and afm files
are searched in AFMFONTS, if they are set (the -v flag will report
which filenames are looked for).
The program will make a pkfont in which the character codes are derived
from their AFM (Adobe Font Metrics) defined values. This can be
overruled by specifying an explicit encoding file via the -e option.
The encoding file enc should contain a valid PostScript encoding
containing PostScript names like /hyphen. Here is an incomplete
example (see afm2tfm for complete syntax):
% This is the EC encoding.
/ECEncoding [ % now 256 chars follow
% 0x00
/grave /acute /circumflex /tilde /dieresis /hungarumlaut
/ring /caron /breve /macron /dotaccent /cedilla
/ogonek /quotesinglbase /guilsinglleft /guilsinglright
(Rest of lines omitted.)
% 0xF0
/eth /ntilde /ograve /oacute /ocircumflex /otilde
/odieresis /oe /oslash /ugrave /uacute /ucircumflex
/udieresis /yacute /thorn /germandbls ] def
Options and arguments:
-aAFMfile Overrules the name that is used to locate the AFM file.
-eenc Name of a file containing an encoding scheme (default - the
encoding named in the AFM-file is used). The actual
PostScript name of the encoding scheme is written as a
"special" at the end of the pkfont.
-Eextension The extension factor (real value, default 1.0).
-mmodename A modename such as would be used by METAFONT (default
"Unknown mode").
-Ppointsize The desired pointsize (real value, default 10.0 points).
-Rbaseres The desired base resolution (integer value, default 300
dpi). If this differs from the value of xres, the
appropriate magnification will be shown in the "specials"
at the end of the pkfont. If possible, this will be
expressed as a magstep, otherwise as a real number. For
example, a pkfont with an xres of 329, using the default
base resolution of 300, will include the "special" text
"mag=magstep(0.5)" at the end of the font.
-raspectratio
The desired aspect ratio (expression, integerY/integerX,
default 300/300). This will be shown in the "specials" at
the end of the pkfont. Setting the aspect ratio creates a
value for yres but an explicit yres value will take
precedence. Argument must be in "" if spaces are left
around `/'.
-Sslant The slant (real value, default 0.0).
-Xxres The resolution in the X direction (integer value, default
300 dpi).
-Yyres The resolution in the Y direction (integer value, default
the value of xres). If yres differs from xres, a "special"
text giving the aspect ratio will be written at the end of
the pkfont.
-v Verbose flag. (Tells what the program is doing.)
type1 The name of the PostScript type1 font. The name of the
AFM-file will be constructed from this name by removing the
extension (if suplied) and adding ".afm". The PostScript
"FontName" is extracted from the AFM-file and written into
a "special" at the end of the pkfont.
[pkfont] The name of the resulting pkfont can be overruled with this
name. The default name of pkfont is derived from the
basename of the type1 font, the pointsize and xres. For
example `ps2pk -P17.28 Utopia-Regular' will result in
`Utopia-Regular17.300pk'. An explicit value for the name
of the pkfont is necessary when the type1 font name already
shows the point size, otherwise the pointsize value is
catenated on to the pkfont basename which is usually not
what is wanted.
The following PK "specials" provide an internal check on the
characteristics of the pkfont, in accordance with the recommendations
of the TeX Working Group on the TeX Directory Standard (TWG-TDS):
"fontid=FontName", "codingscheme=Encoding", "fontfacebyte", "mag",
"mode=(ps2pk)modename", "pixels-per-inch", and "aspect-ratio" if it is
other than unity.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This program uses the type1 hinting and rendering software IBM has
donated to the X-consortium.
SEE ALSO
`METAFONT: The Program', Donald Knuth.
`The GFtoPK processor', belonging to the METAFONTware.
`Adobe Font Metric Files', Version 3.0, PostScript Developer
Support Group.
afm2tfm(1)
pk2bm(1)
kpsewhich(1)
info kpathsea
VERSION
1.4 (January 1994)
AUTHOR
Piet Tutelaers <rcpt@urc.tue.nl>. Modified for ps2pkm by Pierre A.
Mackay <mackay@cs.washington.edu>, This manpage was adapted to teTeX by
Frank Kuester <frank@kuesterei.ch>.
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