ps2pk - creates a TeX pkfont from a type1 PostScript font
ps2pk [ -v ] [ -e
enc ] [ -X
xres ] [ -E
expansion ] [ -S
slant ] [ -P
pointsize ] [ -R
baseres ] [ -r
aspectratio ] [ -Y
yres ] [ -a
AFMfile ] [ -m
modename ] type1 [pkfont]
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
supplied) 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.
This program uses the Type1 hinting and rendering software IBM has donated to
the X Consortium.
`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
1.4 (January 1994)
Piet Tutelaers, modified for ps2pkm by Pierre A. Mackay. This manpage was
adapted to teTeX by Frank Kuester.
Maintained in TeX Live; please send bug reports or other correspondence to
[email protected] (
http://lists.tug.org/tex-k).