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From: [email protected] (Johan Vromans)
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Subject: ANNOUNCE: PostScript::Font -- tools for PostScript fonts
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Date: 9 Mar 1999 15:56:23 GMT
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This package contains a couple of modules to get information from
PostScript fonts and associated metrics files. Also included is a
program to make font samples, and programs to handle the conversion of
PostScript fonts from binary (.pfb) format to ASCII (.pfa) format, and
vice versa.

Modules:

  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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Availability:

(web-page) http://www.squirrel.nl/people/jvromans/software.html
(download) http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/JV
           Archive: PostScript-Font-1.0.tar.gz (or higher version)

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