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Type1inst
Section: Misc. Reference Manual Pages (0.6.1)
Updated: 11-Feb-98
Index NAME
type1inst - Type 1 PostScript font installation utility for the X Window System and Ghostscript
VERSION
0.6.1 (February 11 1998)
SYNOPSIS
type1inst[-nox] [-nogs] [-samples] [-nolog] [-q] [-quiet] [-silent] [-version] [-v]
DESCRIPTION
type1inst is a utility which scans Type 1 PostScript font files and generatesautomatically the
fonts.scale file which the X Window System uses topick up fonts in the current directory and/or the
Fontmap file whichGhostscript uses to map file names to font names. It can also generatesimple font sample sheets which show what your fonts look like.
type1inst is a Perl script so you will need to have that installed on yoursystem. The pfbtops utility (which comes as part of GNU groff) is alsorequired.
ADOBE DPS USERS NOTE
If you are using a commercial Unix system which has a Display PostScript-capableX server (for example Sun Solaris 2.3 or later)then you should
not use type1inst for generating a
fonts.scale file (indeed, such systems do not even use
fonts.scale).The
makepsresutility which came with your system does what you want. You can, however,still use this program with Ghostscript if you wish.
USAGE
Change directory to the directory where the fonts you wish to have processedare located. Invoking type1inst will then generate a
fonts.scaleand a
Fontmap. The program also has a number of options as detailedbelow.
OPTIONS
- -nox
- Supresses generation/update of the file fonts.scale which lists thefonts in the current directory for the benefit of the X Window System. Thisfile is generated or updated by default.
- -nogs
- Supresses generation/update of the file Fontmap which lists thefonts in the current directory for the benefit of Ghostscript. This fileis generated or updated by default.
- -samples
- Creates PostScript files showing the fonts in the current directory. Onefile is created for each font in the subdirectory samples as wellas one or more files showing the fonts together.
- -nolog
- Supresses the generation of a log file detailing what happened during thelast run of type1inst. This file is generated by default.
- -quiet
- Stops type1inst from printing messages on stdout. Messages will be writtento the log file, unless -nolog is also specified, in which case theprogram does its work but does not record anywhere what happened.
- -q
- Same as -quiet.
- -silent
- This has the same effect as -quiet.
- -version
- Print version information and exit.
- -v
- Same as -version.
NOTES
More detailed information is available in the README file which is part ofthe type1inst distribution.
SEE ALSO
X(1),
gs(1),
pfbtops(1),
makepsres(1),
perl(1)
AUTHOR
James Macnicol <james.macnicolAATTmailexcite.com>
COPYRIGHT
type1inst is Copyright (C) 1996-1998 James Macnicol.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modifyit under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by theFree Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any laterversion.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, butWITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTIBILITYfor FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public Licensefor more details.
TRADEMARKS
PostScript and Display PostScript are trademarks of Adobe SystemsIncorporated which may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
Index
- NAME
- VERSION
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- ADOBE DPS USERS NOTE
- USAGE
- OPTIONS
- NOTES
- SEE ALSO
- AUTHOR
- COPYRIGHT
- TRADEMARKS
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