Manual: t1asm

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NAME
       t1asm - assemble PostScript Type 1 font

SYNOPSIS
       t1asm [-a|-b] [-l length] [input [output]]

DESCRIPTION
       t1asm  assembles	 Adobe Type 1 font programs into either PFA (hexadecimal) or PFB (binary) formats from a human-read‐
       able form. If the file output is not specified output goes to the standard output. If the file input is not specified
       input comes from the standard input.

       t1asm tokenizes the charstring data and performs eexec and charstring encryption as specified in the ``black  book,''
       Adobe Type 1 Font Format.

       The input must have a line of the form
	      /-|{string currentfile exch readstring pop}executeonly def
       which  defines  the command, in this case `-|', that is to start charstring data. It is an error not to define such a
       command. Another common name for this command is `RD'.

       After the start of the Subrs array in the input, all open braces `{' not in a comment  begin  a	charstring.  Such  a
       charstring  is terminated by the next non-comment close brace `}'. Within such a charstring, only comments, integers,
       and valid charstring commands are allowed. Valid charstring command names can be found in Adobe Type  1	Font  Format
       and other documents describing the newer Type 2 opcodes. The format within a charstring is unimportant as long as in‐
       tegers  and  commands  are  separated  by at least a one whitespace (space, tab, newline) character. Note that within
       charstrings, comments are discarded because they cannot be encoded.

OPTIONS
       --pfa, -a
	    Output in PFA (ASCII) format.

       --pfb, -b
	    Output in PFB (binary) format. This is the default.

       --block-length=num, -l num
	    PFB only: Set the maximum output block length to num.  The default length is as large as memory allows.

       --line-length=num, -l num
	    PFA only: Set the maximum length of encrypted lines in the output to  num.	 (These	 are  the  lines  consisting
	    wholly of hexadecimal digits.) The default is 64.

EXAMPLES
       % t1asm Utopia-Regular.raw > Utopia-Regular.pfb
       % t1asm -a Utopia-Regular.raw > Utopia-Regular.pfa

SEE ALSO
       t1disasm(1), t1ascii(1), t1binary(1), t1unmac(1), t1mac(1)

       Adobe  Type  1  Font  Format  is	 available  free  from	Adobe  as  a PDF file.	http://partners.adobe.com/asn/devel‐
       oper/PDFS/TN/T1_SPEC.PDF

       The Type 2 Charstring Format, also available from Adobe as a PDF file, describes the newer Type	2  operators,  which
       are  also  used in some multiple-master Type 1 fonts like Adobe Jenson and Kepler.  http://partners.adobe.com/asn/de‐
       veloper/PDFS/TN/5177.Type2.pdf

AUTHORS
       Lee Hetherington (ilh@lcs.mit.edu)
       Eddie Kohler (ekohler@gmail.com)

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