This package contains a couple of modules to get information for and

This package contains a couple of modules to get information for and
from PostScript fonts and associated metrics files. Also included is a
module to facilitate basic typesetting, a program to make font
samples, and programs to handle the conversion of font data to
PostScript binary (.pfb) and ASCII (.pfa) formats. Example program
shows how basic typesetting can be obtained.

Modules:

PostScript::Resources - fetch info from Unix PostScript Resource files

Unix PostScript Resource (.upr) files are the
Adobe specified way of defining PostScript
resources on Unix systems. Using .upr files,
font names and families are associated with
their metrics and outline data.

PostScript::Font - get information from a PostScript font file

Information includes the font name, font
family name, but also encoding vector and list
of glyphs.
Font types 1 and 42 are supported; types 2, 3
and 5 are usually handled as well.
TrueType fonts are internally converted to
Type42 fonts, using an external conversion
tool (not included).

PostScript::FontMetrics - get information from Adobe Font Metrics file

Information includes the font name, font
family name, encoding vector, width and
kerning tables.

A example program is provided that shows how
to use the metrics for basic typesetting of
PostScript texts.

PostScript::PrinterFontMetrics - get information from Printer Font Metrics file

Like PostScript::FontMetrics, but gets the
information from a .PFM file instead.

PostScript::FontInfo - get information from Windows .INF files

Information includes the font name, font
family name and PC filename prefix.

PostScript::BasicTypesetter
PostScript::PseudoISO - tools for basic typesetting

These modules contains functions to do basic
typesetting, like setting paragraphs of text
using different fonts, colors, styles, and
alignments (left, right, center and
justified). All with kerning applied.
Note that these modules are currently
experimental.

Programs:

fontsampler - makes detailed or concise sample pages of fonts

In detailed mode, one or more pages are
produced to show all the glyphs of the font.
Otherwise, just a sample of the font is
printed, allowing for 40 or more font samples
per page.
The output is compliant with Adobe's Document
Structuring Conventions version 3.0.

font2pfa - decodes a font file to ASCII (.pfa) format

The input format may be any type that
PostScript::Font can deal with.

font2pfb - encodes a font file to binary (.pfb) format

The input format may be any type that
PostScript::Font can deal with.

ttfwrapper - wraps a True Type font in PostScript Type42 format.

This functionality is also provided by
font2pfa, but ttfwrapper can also write the
corresponding metrics (AFM) files.

To install, unpack the archive, change to the unpacked directory, and
type:

perl Makefile.PL
make all test
make install

REQUIREMENTS

For TrueType font handling, the CPAN package Font::TTF must be
installed.

AVAILABILITY

(web-page) http://www.squirrel.nl/people/jvromans/software.html
(search) http://search.cpan.org/search?module=PostScript%3A%3AFont
(download) http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/JV/
Archive name: PostScript-Font-x.xx.tar.gz

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