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- CGFont .atc file builder for PPage etc.
- =======================================
-
- MkAtc V1.0 Copyright Adrian Aylward 1991
-
- You may freely copy, use, and modify this program. The source is included
- in the distribution.
-
- This program builds a character encoding table file (.atc) in the format
- used by Professional Page for its CG fonts. It uses the PostScript style
- encoding file. You can use it to change the character set used by PPage,
- to access special characters and typographic symbols.
-
- Command line interface
- ======================
-
- usage:
-
- mkatc -options atcfile
-
- options:
-
- -e encodingfile
- The character set encoding file. Default
- "PSFonts:encoding.ps".
-
- -c charcodesfile
- The file listing the available CG font character codes.
- Default "CGFonts:cgcharset".
-
- -lnnn LoChar (default 32). Character codes below this value
- are ignored.
-
- -hnnn HiChar (default 255). Character codes above this value
- are ignored.
-
- -unnn Unique id.
-
- -r Read the .atc file, only. Do not update it.
-
- -v Verify the encoding table to the standard output.
-
- -V Verify encoding table, using an alternative format.
-
- The "atcfile" argument is the name of the .atc file to be created.
-
- When creating a new .atc file the unique id must be given as an option. (Its
- value can be determined by looking in the corresponding .dat file, or by
- referring to an old version. When updating an old file the old value will
- be used by default.
-
- for example:
-
- mkatc cgfonts:Times.atc
-
- mkatc -e psfonts:ppage_encoding.ps cgfonts:Times.atc
-
- mkatc -rv cgfonts:Times.atc
-
- After changing the .atc file you should purge any entries refering to it
- from the font cache, to ensurethat you get the new characters next time
- you run PPage. The easy way to do this is to type:
-
- rm cgcache:Times*
-
- Caveat
- ======
-
- The .atc file format and the character codes were determined by reverse
- engineering. So I can't guarantee their accurary. However they appear to
- work OK.
-
- Versions
- ========
-
- V1.0 04-May-91
-
- The original.
-
-