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- t1utils is a collection of simple type-1 font manipulation programs.
- Together, they allow you to convert between PFA (ASCII) and PFB
- (binary) formats, disassemble PFA or PFB files into human-readable
- form, reassemble them into PFA or PFB format. Additionally you can
- extract font resources from a Macintosh font file (ATM/Laserwriter).
-
- There are currently five programs:
-
- t1ascii converts PFB files to PFA format.
-
- t1binary converts PFA files to PFB format.
-
- t1disasm disassembles a type-1 font (PFA or PFB format) into a
- raw, human-readable text form for subsequent hand
- editing, tweaking, hint fixing, etc...
-
- t1asm assembles type-1 font into PFA or PFB format from raw,
- human-readable text form.
-
- unpost extracts POST resources from a Macintosh type-1 file
- (ATM/Laserwriter) into PFA or PFB format for use
- outside the Macintosh environment. The Macintosh file
- should be stored in MacBinary format or as a raw
- resource fork. Note that unpost does not have to run
- on a Macintosh, but makes Macintosh type-1 fonts
- available to Unix machines and PCs.
-
- These programs have been originally developed on a Sun4 (SPARC)
- using both acc and gcc by I. Lee Hetherington (ilh@lcs.mit.edu).
-
- Kai-Uwe Herbing (herbing@netmbx.netmbx.de), have ported this
- utility collection to the Microsoft C/C++ Compiler Version 7.00
- and compiled them for the MS-DOS operating system.
-
- John Paul Morrison (jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca) ported this to OS/2 2.0
- for use with the GNU/EMX compiler.
-
- The copyright on all of the tools in t1utils.zip looks like:
-
- Copyright (c) 1992 by I. Lee Hetherington, all rights
- reserved.
-
- Permission is hereby granted to use, modify, and distribute
- this program for any purpose provided this copyright notice
- and the one below remain intact.
-
- Ported to Microsoft C/C++ Compiler and MS-DOS operating system
- by Kai-Uwe Herbing (herbing@netmbx.netmbx.de) on June 12, 1992.
-
- Note that these tools should not be used to illegally copy type-1 font
- programs. Typeface design is an intricate art that should be
- rewarded.
-
- The original version numbers of the ported programs are:
- t1ascii 1.1 t1binary 1.1
- t1disasm 1.2 t1asm 1.2
-
- I. Lee Hetherington Kai-Uwe Herbing
- ilh@lcs.mit.edu herbing@netmbx.netmbx.de