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Short: Convert TrueType to Postscript Type1 fonts
Author: James S.Perrin <james.perrin@ntlworld.com>
Uploader: James S.Perrin <james.perrin@ntlworld.com>
Version: release 1.0
Type: text/font
What is it?
This archive contains a couple of programs that are distributed with the
freetype library (http://www.freetype.org) along with an arexx script to make
life a little easier.
Why?
After downloading several TrueType fonts for use with DrawStudio I found it
only supports Postscript Type1 since it uses its on internal font engine, and
also does Imagine.
Installation
copy t1asm and ttf2pfb to C: or anywhere in your path
copy ttf2pfb.rexx to REXX:
Usage
I suggest you use the script as its straight forward and hopefully uses
sensible defaults.
rx ttf2pdb <srcdir> <destdir>
the script will search <srcdir> for any .ttf files and convert them into .pfb
files in <destdir>, the new files use the correct font names stored within the
font files not the sometimes bizzare file names (see text/util/ttfr).
Consult the file TODO which contains the authors original notes or run
c:ttf2pfb without arguments to get a list of options. t1asm simply takes the
outout from ttf2pfb as stdin with the option -b for the 'b' style Postscript
fonts (that which are generally used on the Amiga).
Bugs and Stuff
For some reason ttf2pfb fails on a couple of fonts from the Web Fonts
distrubtion ArialBoldItailic and TimesNewRomanBoldItalic IIRC, possibly they
need different arguments passed to tt2pfb.
Since I didn't write ttf2pfb or t1asm I can't offer any support for them really.
I would say get in touch with the original authors (see src) but they haven't
been updated for quite a while (t1asm 1992!).
I have removed the use of getopts() from t1asm as it was overkill and meant I
could compile without using ixemul.
I've choosen what I think are sensible defaults for ttf2pfb in the script as I
don't have much (any!) knowledge of character encoding etc. You might need to
change things if you get TT fonts intended for Macs.
============================= Archive contents =============================
Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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6187 2675 56.7% 20-Mar-98 19:43:32 license.txt
16236 9493 41.5% 01-Aug-00 01:38:18 t1asm
12993 4479 65.5% 16-Sep-00 22:56:26 t1asm.c
1387 771 44.4% 11-Jul-98 06:05:12 TODO
70412 40302 42.7% 01-Aug-00 01:36:54 ttf2pfb
38844 11830 69.5% 11-Jul-98 06:05:12 ttf2pfb.c
2038 1076 47.2% 23-Sep-00 12:27:52 ttf2pfb.readme
837 435 48.0% 01-Aug-00 01:25:14 TTF2PFB.rexx
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148934 71061 52.2% 04-Oct-100 05:00:18 8 files