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mmpfb - creates single-master fonts from multiple master fonts
mmpfb
[OPTIONS...] FONT
Mmpfb creates a normal, single-master PostScript
font from a multiple master font by interpolation. You pass it a PFB or
PFA font and options specifying the design point you want; it writes the
resulting PFB or PFA font to the standard output.
The fonts mmpfb creates
are interpolated at a low level to remove multiple master instructions
from individual characters. Therefore, they can be used by programs that
don't normally understand multiple master fonts, like ps2pk(1)
.
Mmpfb supports
fonts with intermediate masters, like Adobe Jenson and Kepler. It can also
create AMCP (Adobe Multiple Master Conversion Program) files for use by
mmafm(1)
; see --amcp-info below.
The font argument is either the name of a
PFA or PFB font file, or a PostScript font name. If you give a font name,
mmpfb will find the actual outline file using the PSRESOURCEPATH environment
variable. This colon-separated path is searched for `PSres.upr' files, an Adobe
method for indexing PostScript resources.
You can also give the name of
a multiple master font instance, like `MinionMM_367_400_12_'. Mmpfb will parse
the font name and create that instance for you. `PSres.upr' files must be set
up for this to work.
% mmpfb --weight=400 --width=600 MyriadMM.pfb > MyriadMM_400_600_.pfb
Long options may be abbreviated to their unique prefixes.
- --output=file,
-o file
- Send output to file instead of standard output.
- --pfb, -b
- Output
a PFB font. This is the default.
- --pfa, -a
- Output a PFA font.
- --amcp-info
- Do
not create a font; instead, output an AMCP file for use by mmafm(1)
. A message
is printed if the font doesn't have intermediate masters, in which case
no AMCP file is necessary.
- --weight=N, -w N
- Set the weight axis to N.
- --width=N,
-W N
- Set the width axis to N.
- --optical-size=N, -O N
- Set the optical size
axis to N.
- --style=N
- Set the style axis to N.
- --1=N (--2=N, --3=N, --4=N)
- Set
the first (second, third, fourth) axis to N.
- --precision=N, -p N
- Set the
output precision to N. Higher values mean the control points in the output
font will be more exactly aligned; lower values (1 or 2) create smaller
output font files, and are close enough for most purposes. A precision of
N means that each point will be within 1/N font units of the exact interpolated
value. (A font unit is generally 1/7200 inch for a 10-point font.) The default
is 5.
- --subrs=N
- Limit the output font to at most N subroutines. Multiple
master fonts generally have a lot of subroutines, as do single-master fonts
generated by mmpfb. Some versions of Adobe Acrobat Distiller fail on many-subroutined
fonts with a message like ``Warning: unable to embed font X. Invalid character
outline data''. You can use --subrs to work around this problem. A good value
for N is 256.
mmafm(1)
- reducing font to minimum number
of subroutines (N)
- You tried to reduce the number of subroutines to less
than N using the --subrs option, but the font needs at least N to function.
The output font will have N subroutines.
Eddie Kohler, eddietwo@lcs.mit.edu
http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~eddietwo/
The latest version is available from:
http://www.lcdf.org/~eddietwo/type/
Thanks to Melissa O'Neill <oneill@cs.sfu.ca>
for suggestions and patient debugging.
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