From 4c1de7f3e1c868e1e468781e5e2bac652f471e75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karl Berry Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 16:15:58 +0000 Subject: remove ttf2pt1, never installed outside Windows and no standard configure git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@6477 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751 --- Master/texmf/doc/man/man1/ttf2pt1.1 | 619 ------------------------------------ 1 file changed, 619 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 Master/texmf/doc/man/man1/ttf2pt1.1 (limited to 'Master/texmf') diff --git a/Master/texmf/doc/man/man1/ttf2pt1.1 b/Master/texmf/doc/man/man1/ttf2pt1.1 deleted file mode 100644 index 86a36074b8c..00000000000 --- a/Master/texmf/doc/man/man1/ttf2pt1.1 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,619 +0,0 @@ -.rm #[ #] #H #V #F C -.SH "NAME" -TTF2PT1 \- A True Type to PostScript Type 1 Font Converter -.SH "SYNOPSIS" -\f(CWttf2pt1 \fI[-options] ttffont.ttf [Fontname]\fR\fR -.PP -or -.PP -\f(CWttf2pt1 \fI[-options] ttffont.ttf -\fR\fR -.SH "DESCRIPTION" -Ttf2pt1 is a font converter from the True Type format (and some other formats -supported by the FreeType library as well) to the Adobe Type1 format. -.PP -The versions 3.0 and later got rather extensive post-processing algorithm that -brings the converted fonts to the requirements of the Type1 standard, tries to -correct the rounding errors introduced during conversions and some simple -kinds of bugs that are typical for the public domain TTF fonts. It -also generates the hints that enable much better rendering of fonts in -small sizes that are typical for the computer displays. But everything -has its price, and some of the optimizations may not work well for certain -fonts. That's why the options were added to the converter, to control -the performed optimizations. -.SH "OPTIONS" -The first variant creates the file \f(CWFontname.pfa\fR (or \f(CWFontname.pfb\fR if the -option \*(L'\fB\-b\fR\*(R' was used) with the converted font and \f(CWFontname.afm\fR with the -font metrics, the second one prints the font or another file (if the option -\&\*(R'\fB\-G\fR\*(R' was used) on the standard output from where it can be immediately -piped through some filter. If no \f(CWFontname\fR is specified for the first -variant, the name is generated from \f(CWttffont\fR by replacing the \f(CW.ttf\fR -filename suffix. -.PP -Most of the time no options are neccessary (with a possible exception -of \*(L'\fB\-e\fR'). But if there are some troubles with the resulting font, they -may be used to control the conversion. -The \fBoptions\fR are: -.Ip "\(bu" 2 -\f(CW\fB-a\fR\fR \- Include all the glyphs from the source file into the converted -file. If this option is not specified then only the glyphs that have -been assigned some encoding are included, because the rest of glyphs -would be inaccessible anyway and would only consume the disk space. -But some applications are clever enough to change the encoding on -the fly and thus use the other glyphs, in this case they could -benefit from using this option. But there is a catch: the X11 library -has rather low limit for the font size. Including more glyphs increases -the file size and thus increases the chance of hitting this limit. -See \f(CWapp/X11/README\fR for the description of a -patch to X11 which fixes this problem. -.Ip "\(bu" 2 -\f(CW\fB-b\fR\fR \- Encode the resulting font to produce a ready \f(CW.pfb\fR file. -.Ip "\(bu" 2 -\f(CW\fB-d \fIsuboptions\fR\fR\fR \- Debugging options. The suboptions are: -.Sp -\f(CW\fBa\fR\fR \- Print out the absolute coordinates of dots in outlines. Such -a font can not be used by any program (that's why this option is -incompatible with \*(L'\fB\-e\fR') but it has proven to be a valuable debuging -information. -.Sp -\f(CW\fBr\fR\fR \- Do not reverse the direction of outlines. The \s-1TTF\s0 fonts have -the standard direction of outlines opposite to the Type1 fonts. So -they should be reversed during proper conversion. This option -may be used for debugging or to handle a \s-1TTF\s0 font with wrong -direction of outlines (possibly, converted in a broken way from -a Type1 font). The first signs of the wrong direction are the -letters like \*(L"P\*(R" or \*(L"B\*(R" without the unpainted \*(L"holes\*(R" inside. -.Ip "\(bu" 2 -\f(CW\fB-e\fR\fR \- Assemble the resulting font to produce a ready \f(CW.pfa\fR file. -.Sp -[ S.B.: Personally I don't think that this option is particularly useful. -The same result may be achieved by piping the unassembled data -through t1asm, the Type 1 assembler. And, anyways, it's good to -have the t1utils package handy. But Mark and many users think that -this functionality is good and it took not much time to add this option. ] -.Ip "\(bu" 2 -\f(CW\fB-F\fR\fR \- Force the Unicode encoding: any type of \s-1MS\s0 encoding specified -in the font is ignored and the font is treated like it has Unicode -encoding. \fB\s-1WARNING\s0:\fR this option is intended for buggy fonts -which actually are in Unicode but are marked as something else. The -effect on the other fonts is unpredictable. -.Ip "\(bu" 2 -\f(CW\fB-G \fIsuboptions\fR\fR\fR \- File generation options. The suboptions may be lowercase -or uppercase, the lowercase ones disable the generation of particular -files, the corresponding uppercase suboptions enable the generation of the -same kind of files. If the result of ttf2pt1 is requested to be printed on -the standard output, the last enabling suboption of \fB\-G\fR determines -which file will be written to the standard output and the rest of files -will be discarded. For example, \fB\-G A\fR will request the \s-1AFM\s0 file. -The suboptions to disable/enable the generation of the files are: -.Sp -\f(CW\fBf/F\fR\fR \- The font file. Depending on the other options this file -will have one of the suffixes \f(CW.t1a\fR, \f(CW.pfa\fR or \f(CW.pfb\fR. If the conversion result -is requested on the standard output ('\f(CW-\fR\*(R' is used as the output file name) -then the font file will also be written there by default, if not overwritten -by another suboption of \fB\-G\fR. -\fBDefault: enabled\fR -.Sp -\f(CW\fBa/A\fR\fR \- The Adobe font metrics file (\f(CW.afm\fR). -\fBDefault: enabled\fR -.Sp -\f(CW\fBe/E\fR\fR \- The dvips encoding file (\f(CW.enc\fR). -\fBDefault: disabled\fR -.Ip "\(bu" 2 -\f(CW\fB-l \fIlanguage\fR[+\fIargument\fR]\fR\fR \- Extract the fonts for the specified language from a -multi-language Unicode font. If this option is not used the converter -tries to guess the language by the values of the shell variable \s-1LANG\s0. -If it is not able to guess the language by \s-1LANG\s0 it tries all the -languages in the order they are listed. -.Sp -After the plus sign an optional argument for the language extractor -may be specified. The format of the argument is absolutely up to -the particular language converter. The primary purpose of the -argument is to support selection of planes for the multi-plane -Eastern encodings but it can also be used in any other way. The -language extractor may decide to add the plane name in some form -to the name of the resulting font. None of the currently supported -languages make any use of the argument yet. -.Sp -As of now the following languages are supported: -.Sp -\ \ \f(CWlatin1\fR \- for all the languages using the Latin-1 encoding -.Sp -\ \ \f(CWlatin2\fR \- for the Central European languages -.Sp -\ \ \f(CWlatin4\fR \- for the Baltic languages -.Sp -\ \ \f(CWlatin5\fR \- for the Turkish language -.Sp -\ \ \f(CWcyrillic\fR \- for the languages with Cyrillic alphabet -.Sp -\ \ \f(CWrussian\fR \- historic synonym for cyrillic -.Sp -\ \ \f(CWbulgarian\fR \- historic synonym for cyrillic -.Sp -\ \ \f(CWadobestd\fR \- for the AdobeStandard encoding used by TeX -.Sp -\ \ \f(CWplane+\fIargument\fR\fR \- to select one plane from a multi-byte encoding -.Sp -The argument of the \*(L"\f(CWplane\fR\*(R" language may be in one of three forms: -.Sp -\ \ \f(CWplane+\fBpid=\fR\fI\fR\fB,eid=\fR\fI\fR\fR -.Sp -\ \ \f(CWplane+\fBpid=\fR\fI\fR\fB,eid=\fR\fI\fR\fB,\fR\fI\fR\fR -.Sp -\ \ \f(CWplane+\fI\fR\fR -.Sp -Pid (\s-1TTF\s0 platform id) and eid (\s-1TTF\s0 encoding id) select a particular -\s-1TTF\s0 encoding table in the original font. They are specified as decimal -numbers. If this particular encoding table is not present in the font -file then the conversion fails. The native ("ttf") front-end parser supports -only pid=3 (Windows platform), the FreeType-based ("ft") front-end supports -any platform. If pid/eid is not specified then the \s-1TTF\s0 encoding table is -determined as usual: Unicode encoding if it's first or an 8-bit encoding -if not (and for an 8-bit encoding the plane number is silently ignored). -To prevent the converter from falling back to an 8-bit encoding, specify -the Unicode pid/eid value explicitly. -.Sp -Plane_number is a hexadecimal (if starts with \*(L"\fB0x\fR") or decimal number. -It gives the values of upper bytes for which 256 characters will be -selected. If not specified, defaults to 0. It is also used as a font -name suffix (the leading \*(L"0x\*(R" is not included into the suffix). -.Sp -\fB\s-1NOTE\s0:\fR -You may notice that the language names are not uniform: some are the -names of particular languages and some are names of encodings. This -is because of the different approaches. The original idea was to -implement a conversion from Unicode to the appropriate Windows -encoding for a given language. And then use the translation tables -to generate the fonts in whatever final encodings are needed. This -would allow to pile together the Unicode fonts and the non-Unicode -Windows fonts for that language and let the program to sort them out -automatically. And then generate fonts in all the possible encodings -for that language. An example of this approach is the Russian language -support. But if there is no multiplicity of encodings used for some -languages and if the non-Unicode fonts are not considered important -by the users, another way would be simpler to implement: just provide -only one table for extraction of the target encoding from Unicode -and don't bother with the translation tables. The latin* \*(L"languages\*(R" -are examples of this approach. If somebody feels that he needs the -Type1 fonts both in Latin-* and Windows encodings he or she is absolutely -welcome to submit the code to implement it. -.Sp -\fB\s-1WARNING\s0:\fR -Some of the glyphs included into the AdobeStandard encoding are not -included into the Unicode standard. The most typical examples of such -glyphs are ligatures like \*(L'fi\*(R', \*(L'fl\*(R' etc. Because of this the font -designers may place them at various places. The converter tries to -do its best, if the glyphs have honest Adobe names and/or are -placed at the same codes as in the Microsoft fonts they will be -picked up. Otherwise a possible solution is to use the option \*(L'\fB\-L\fR\*(R' -with an external map. -.Ip "\(bu" 2 -\f(CW\fB-L \fIfile\fR[+[pid=\fI\fR,eid=\fI\fR,][\fIplane\fR]]\fR\fR \- Extract the fonts for the specified -language from a multi-language font using the map from this file. This is -rather like the option \*(L'\fB\-l\fR\*(R' but the encoding map is not -compiled into the program, it's taken from that file, so it's -easy to edit. Examples of such files are provided in -\f(CWmaps/adobe-standard-encoding.map\fR, \f(CWCP1250.map\fR. (\fB\s-1NOTE\s0:\fR -the \*(L'standard encoding\*(R' map does not include all the glyphs of the -AdobeStandard encoding, it's provided only as an example.) The -description of the supported map formats is in the file -\f(CWmaps/unicode-sample.map\fR. -.Sp -Likewise to \*(L'\fB\-l\fR\*(R', an argument may be specified after the map file -name. But in this case the argument has fixed meaning: it selects the -original \s-1TTF\s0 encoding table (the syntax is the same as in \*(L'\fB\-l plane\fR') -and/or a plane of the map file. The plane name also gets added after dash -to the font name. The plane is a concept used in the Eastern fonts with big -number of glyphs: one \s-1TTF\s0 font gets divided into multiple Type1 fonts, -each containing one plane of up to 256 glyphs. But with a little -creativity this concept may be used for other purposes of combining -multiple translation maps into one file. To extract multiple planes -from a \s-1TTF\s0 font \f(CWttf2pt1\fR must be run multiple times, each time with -a different plane name specified. -.Sp -The default original \s-1TTF\s0 encoding table used for the option \*(L'\fB\-L\fR\*(R' is -Unicode. The map files may include directives to specify different original -\s-1TTF\s0 encodings. However if the pid/eid pair is specified with -it overrides any original encoding specified in the map file. -.Ip "\(bu" 2 -\f(CW\fB-m \fItype\fR=\fIvalue\fR\fR\fR \- Set maximal or minimal limits of resources. -These limits control the the font generation by limiting the resources -that the font is permitted to require from the PostScript interpreter. -The currently supported types of limits are: -.Sp -\f(CW\fBh\fR\fR \- the maximal hint stack depth for the substituted hints. -The default value is 128, according to the limitation in X11. This seems to -be the lowest (and thus the safest) widespread value. To display the -hint stack depth required by each glyph in a \f(CW.t1a\fR file use the script -\f(CWscripts/cntstems.pl\fR. -.Ip "\(bu" 2 -\f(CW\fB-O \fIsuboptions\fR\fR\fR \- Outline processing options. The suboptions -may be lowercase or uppercase, the lowercase ones disable the features, -the corresponding uppercase suboptions enable the same features. -The suboptions to disable/enable features are: -.Sp -\f(CW\fBb/B\fR\fR \- Guessing of the ForceBold parameter. This parameter helps -the Type1 engine to rasterize the bold fonts properly at small sizes. -But the algorithm used to guess the proper value of this flag makes -that guess based solely on the font name. In rare cases that may cause -errors, in these cases you may want to disable this guessing. -\fBDefault: enabled\fR -.Sp -\f(CW\fBh/H\fR\fR \- Autogeneration of hints. The really complex outlines -may confuse the algorithm, so theoretically it may be useful -sometimes to disable them. Although up to now it seems that -even bad hints are better than no hints at all. -\fBDefault: enabled\fR -.Sp -\f(CW\fBu/U\fR\fR \- Hint substitution. Hint substitution is a technique -permitting generation of more detailed hints for the rasterizer. It allows -to use different sets of hints for different parts of a glyph and change -these sets as neccessary during rasterization (that's why \*(L"substituted"). -So it should improve the quality of the fonts rendered at small sizes. -But there are two catches: First, the X11 library has rather low limit for -the font size. More detailed hints increase the file size and thus increase -the chance of hitting this limit (that does not mean that you shall hit it -but you may if your fonts are particularly big). This is especially -probable for Unicode fonts converted with option \*(L'\fB\-a\fR\*(R', so you may want to -use \*(L'\fB\-a\fR\*(R' together with \*(L'\fB\-Ou\fR\*(R'. See \f(CWapp/X11/README\fR for the description of -a patch to X11 which fixes this problem. Second, some rasterizers (again, -X11 is the typical example) have a limitation for total number of hints -used when drawing a glyph (also known as the hint stack depth). If that -stack overflows the glyph is ignored. Starting from version 3.22 \f(CWttf2pt1\fR -uses algorithms to minimizing this depth, with the trade-off of slightly -bigger font files. The glyphs which still exceed the limit set by option -\&\*(R'\fB\-mh\fR\*(R' have all the substituted hints removed and only base hints left. -The algorithms seem to have been refined far enough to make the fonts with -substituted hints look better than the fonts without them or at least the -same. Still if the original fonts are not well-designed the detailed -hinting may emphasize the defects of the design, such as non-even thickness -of lines. So provided that you are not afraid of the X11 bug the best idea -would be to generate a font with this feature and without it, then compare -the results using the program \f(CWother/cmpf\fR (see the description -in \f(CWother/README\fR) and decide which one looks better. -\fBDefault: enabled\fR -.Sp -\f(CW\fBo/O\fR\fR \- Space optimization of the outlines\*(R' code. This kind of optimization -never hurts, and the only reason to disable this feature is for comparison -of the generated fonts with the fonts generated by the previous versions of -converter. Well, it _almost_ never hurts. As it turned out there exist -some brain-damaged printers which don't understand it. Actually this -feature does not change the outlines at all. The Type 1 font manual -provides a set of redundant operators that make font description shorter, -such as \*(L'10 hlineto\*(R' instead of \*(L'0 10 rlineto\*(R' to describe a horizontal -line. This feature enables use of these operators. -\fBDefault: enabled\fR -.Sp -\f(CW\fBs/S\fR\fR \- Smoothing of outlines. If the font is broken in some -way (even the ones that are not easily noticeable), such smoothing -may break it further. So disabling this feature is the first thing to be -tried if some font looks odd. But with smoothing off the hint generation -algorithms may not work properly too. -\fBDefault: enabled\fR -.Sp -\f(CW\fBt/T\fR\fR \- Auto-scaling to the 1000x1000 Type1 standard matrix. The -\s-1TTF\s0 fonts are described in terms of an arbitrary matrix up to -4000x4000. The converted fonts must be scaled to conform to -the Type1 standard. But the scaling introduces additional rounding -errors, so it may be curious sometimes to look at the font in its -original scale. -\fBDefault: enabled\fR -.Sp -\f(CW\fBw/W\fR\fR \- Glyphs\*(R' width corection. This option is designed to be -used on broken fonts which specify too narrow widths for the -letters. You can tell that a font can benefit from this option -if you see that the characters are smashed together without -any whitespace between them. This option causes the converter -to set the character widths to the actual width of this character -plus the width of a typical vertical stem. But on the other hand -the well-designed fonts may have characters that look better if -their widths are set slightly narrower. Such well-designed fonts -will benefit from disabling this feature. You may want to convert -a font with and without this feature, compare the results and -select the better one. This feature may be used only on proportional -fonts, it has no effect on the fixed-width fonts. -\fBDefault: disabled\fR -.Ip "\(bu" 2 -\f(CW\fB-p \fIparser_name\fR\fR\fR \- Use the specified front-end parser to read the font file. -If this option is not used, ttf2pt1 selects the parser automatically based -on the suffix of the font file name, it uses the first parser in its -list that supports this font type. Now two parsers are supported: -.Sp -\ \ \f(CWttf\fR \- built-in parser for the ttf files (suffix \f(CW.ttf\fR) -.Sp -\ \ \f(CWbdf\fR \- built-in parser for the \s-1BDF\s0 files (suffix \f(CW.bdf\fR) -.Sp -\ \ \f(CWft\fR \- parser based on the FreeType-2 library (suffixes \f(CW.ttf\fR, -\&\f(CW.otf\fR, \f(CW.pfa\fR, \f(CW.pfb\fR) -.Sp -The parser \f(CWft\fR is \fB\s-1NOT\s0\fR linked in by default. See \f(CWMakefile\fR -for instructions how to enable it. We do no support this parser on -Windows: probably it will work but nobody tried and nobody knows how -to build it. -.Sp -The conversion of the bitmap fonts (such as \s-1BDF\s0) is simplistic yet, -producing jagged outlines. When converting such fonts, it might be -a good idea to turn off the hint substitution (using option \fB\-Ou\fR) -because the hints produced will be huge but not adding much to the -quality of the fonts. -.Ip "\(bu" 2 -\f(CW\fB-u \fInumber\fR\fR\fR \- Mark the font with this value as its -UniqueID. The UniqueID is used by the printers with the hard disks -to cache the rasterized characters and thus significantly -speed-up the printing. Some of those printers just can't -store the fonts without UniqueID on their disk.The problem -is that the \s-1ID\s0 is supposed to be unique, as it name says. And -there is no easy way to create a guaranteed unique \s-1ID\s0. Adobe specifies -the range 4000000-4999999 for private IDs but still it's difficult -to guarantee the uniqueness within it. So if you don't really need the -UniqueID don't use it, it's optional. Luckily there are a few millions of -possible IDs, so the chances of collision are rather low. -If instead of the number a special value \*(L'\f(CW\fBA\fR\fR\*(R' is given -then the converter generates the value of UniqueID automatically, -as a hash of the font name. (\fB\s-1NOTE\s0:\fR in the version 3.22 the -algorithm for autogeneration of UniqueID was changed to fit the values -into the Adobe-spacified range. This means that if UniqueIDs were used -then the printer's cache may need to be flushed before replacing the -fonts converted by an old version with fonts converted by a newer version). -A simple way to find if any of the fonts in a given directory have -duplicated UniqueIDs is to use the command: -.Sp -\f(CW\ \ cat *.pf[ab] | grep UniqueID | sort | uniq -c | grep -v ' 1 '\fR -.Sp -Or if you use \f(CWscripts/convert\fR it will do that for you automatically -plus it will also give the exact list of files with duplicate UIDs. -.Ip "\(bu" 2 -\f(CW\fB-v \fIsize\fR\fR\fR \- Re-scale the font to get the size of a typical uppercase -letter somewhere around the specified size. Actually, it re-scales -the whole font to get the size of one language-dependent letter to be -at least of the specified size. Now this letter is \*(L"A\*(R" in all the -supported languages. The size is specified in the points of the -Type 1 coordinate grids, the maximal value is 1000. This is an -experimental option and should be used with caution. It tries to -increase the visible font size for a given point size and thus make -the font more readable. But if overused it may cause the fonts to -look out of scale. As of now the interesting values of size for -this option seem to be located mostly between 600 and 850. This -re-scaling may be quite useful but needs more experience to -understand the balance of its effects. -.Ip "\(bu" 2 -\f(CW\fB-W \fIlevel\fR\fR\fR \- Select the verbosity level of the warnings. -Currently the levels from 0 to 4 are supported. Level 0 means no warnings -at all, level 4 means all the possible warnings. The default level is 3. -Other levels may be added in the future, so using the level number 99 is -recommended to get all the possible warnings. Going below level 2 is -not generally recommended because you may miss valuable information about -the problems with the fonts being converted. -.Ip "\(bu" 2 -\fBObsolete option:\fR -\f(CW\fB-A\fR\fR \- Print the font metrics (.afm file) instead of the font on \s-1STDOUT\s0. -Use \fB\-\s-1GA\s0\fR instead. -.Ip "\(bu" 2 -\fBVery obsolete option:\fR -.Sp -The algorithm that implemented the forced fixed width had major -flaws, so it was disabled. The code is still in the program and -some day it will be refined and returned back. Meanwhile the -option name \*(L'\fB\-f\fR\*(R' was reused for another option. The old version was: -.Sp -\f(CW\fB-f\fR\fR \- Don't try to force the fixed width of font. Normally the converter -considers the fonts in which the glyph width deviates by not more -than 5% as buggy fixed width fonts and forces them to have really -fixed width. If this is undesirable, it can be disabled by this option. -.PP -The \f(CW.pfa\fR font format supposes that the description of the characters -is binary encoded and encrypted. This converter does not encode or -encrypt the data by default, you have to specify the option \*(L'\fB\-e\fR\*(R' -or use the \f(CWt1asm\fR program to assemble (that means, encode and -encrypt) the font program. The \f(CWt1asm\fR program that is included with -the converter is actually a part of the \f(CWt1utils\fR package, rather old -version of which may be obtained from -.PP -http://ttf2pt1.sourceforge.net/t1utils.tar.gz -.PP -Note that \f(CWt1asm\fR from the old version of that package won't work properly -with the files generated by \f(CWttf2pt1\fR version 3.20 and later. Please use -\f(CWt1asm\fR packaged with \f(CWttf2pt1\fR or from the new version \f(CWt1utils\fR -instead. For a newer version of \f(CWt1utils\fR please look at -.PP -http://www.lcdf.org/~eddietwo/type/ -.SH "EXAMPLES" -So, the following command lines: -.PP -\f(CWttf2pt1 -e ttffont.ttf t1font\fR -.PP -\f(CWttf2pt1 ttffont.ttf - | t1asm >t1font.pfa\fR -.PP -represent two ways to get a working font. The benefit of the second form -is that other filters may be applied to the font between the converter -and assembler. -.SH "FILES" -.Ip "\(bu" 2 -\s-1TTF2PT1_LIBXDIR/\s0t1asm -.Ip "\(bu" 2 -\s-1TTF2PT1_SHAREDIR\s0/* -.Ip "\(bu" 2 -\s-1TTF2PT1_SHAREDIR/\s0scripts/* -.Ip "\(bu" 2 -\s-1TTF2PT1_SHAREDIR/\s0other/* -.Ip "\(bu" 2 -\s-1TTF2PT1_SHAREDIR/README\s0 -.Ip "\(bu" 2 -\s-1TTF2PT1_SHAREDIR/FONTS\s0 -.SH "SEE ALSO" -.Ip "\(bu" 4 -the \fIttf2pt1_convert(1)\fR manpage -.Ip "\(bu" 4 -the \fIttf2pt1_x2gs(1)\fR manpage -.Ip "\(bu" 4 -the \fIt1asm(1)\fR manpage -.Ip "\(bu" 4 -ttf2pt1-announce@lists.sourceforge.net -.Sp -The mailing list with announcements about ttf2pt1. It is a moderated mailing -with extremely low traffic. Everyone is encouraged to subscribe to keep in -touch with the current status of project. To subscribe use the Web interface -at http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/ttf2pt1-announce. -If you have only e-mail access to the Net then send a subscribe request to -the development mailing list ttf2pt1-devel@lists.sourceforge.net and somebody -will help you with subscription. -.Ip "\(bu" 4 -ttf2pt1-devel@lists.sourceforge.net -.Sp -ttf2pt1-users@lists.sourceforge.net -.Sp -The ttf2pt1 mailing lists for development and users issues. They have not -that much traffic either. To subscribe use the Web interface at -http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/ttf2pt1-devel -and http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/ttf2pt1-users. -If you have only e-mail access to the Net then send a subscribe request to -the development mailing list ttf2pt1-devel@lists.sourceforge.net and somebody -will help you with subscription. -.Ip "\(bu" 4 -http://ttf2pt1.sourceforge.net -.Sp -http://www.netspace.net.au/~mheath/ttf2pt1/ -.Sp -The primary copies of the main page of the project. -.SH "BUGS" -It seems that many Eastern fonts use features of the TTF format that are -not supported by the ttf2pt1's built-in front-end parser. Because of -this for now we recommend using the FreeType-based parser (option -\&\*(R'\fB\-p ft\fR') with the \*(L"\f(CWplane\fR\*(R" language. -.Sh "Troubleshooting and bug reports" -Have problems with conversion of some font ? The converter dumps core ? Or your -printer refuses to understand the converted fonts ? Or some characters are -missing ? Or some characters look strange ? -.PP -Send the bug reports to the ttf2pt1 development mailing list at -ttf2pt1-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. -.PP -Try to collect more information about the problem and include it into -the bug report. (Of course, even better if you would provide a ready -fix, but just a detailed bug report is also good). Provide detailed -information about your problem, this will speed up the response greatly. -Don't just write \*(L"this font looks strange after conversion\*(R" but describe -what's exactly wrong with it: for example, what characters look wrong -and what exactly is wrong about their look. Providing a link to the -original font file would be also a good idea. Try to do a little -troublehooting and report its result. This not only would help with -the fix but may also give you a temporary work-around for the bug. -.PP -First, enable full warnings with option \*(L'\fB\-W99\fR\*(R', save them to -a file and read carefully. Sometimes the prolem is with a not implemented -feature which is reported in the warnings. Still, reporting about such -problems may be a good idea: some features were missed to cut corners, -in hope that no real font is using them. So a report about a font using -such a feature may motivate someone to implement it. Of course, you -may be the most motivated person: after all, you are the one wishing -to convert that font. ;\-) Seriously, the philosophy \*(L"scrath your own itch\*(R" -seems to be the strongest moving force behind the Open Source software. -.PP -The next step is playing with the options. This serves a dual purpose: -on one hand, it helps to localize the bug, on the other hand you may be -able to get a working version of the font for the meantime while the -bug is being fixed. The typical options to try out are: first \*(L'\fB\-Ou\fR\*(R', if -it does not help then \*(L'\fB\-Os\fR\*(R', then \*(L'\fB\-Oh\fR\*(R', then \*(L'\fB\-Oo\fR\*(R'. -They are described in a bit more detail above. Try them one by one -and in combinations. See if with them the resulting fonts look better. -.PP -On some fonts ttf2pt1 just crashes. Commonly that happens because the -font being converted is highly defective (although sometimes the bug -is in ttf2pt1 itself). In any case it should not crash, so the reports -about such cases will help to handle these defects properly in future. -.PP -We try to respond to the bug reports in a timely fashion but alas, this -may not always be possible, especially if the problem is complex. -This is a volunteer project and its resources are limited. Because -of this we would appreciate bug reports as detailed as possible, -and we would appreciate the ready fixes and contributions even more. -.SH "HISTORY" -Based on ttf2pfa by Andrew Weeks, and help from Frank Siegert. -.PP -Modification by Mark Heath. -.PP -Further modification by Sergey Babkin. -.PP -The Type1 assembler by I. 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