t1asm - assemble PostScript Type 1 font
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Description
t1asm assembles Adobe Type 1 font programs into either PFA (hexadecimal) or PFB (binary) formats from a
human-readable 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,'' AdobeType1FontFormat.
The input must have a line of the form
/-|{stringcurrentfileexchreadstringpop}executeonlydef
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 AdobeType1FontFormat and other documents describing the newer Type 2 opcodes. The format
within a charstring is unimportant as long as integers 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.
Examples
% t1asm Utopia-Regular.raw > Utopia-Regular.pfb
% t1asm -a Utopia-Regular.raw > Utopia-Regular.pfa
Name
t1asm - assemble PostScript Type 1 font
Options
--pfa, -a
Output in PFA (ASCII) format.
--pfb, -b
Output in PFB (binary) format. This is the default.
--block-length=num, -lnum
PFB only: Set the maximum output block length to num. The default length is as large as memory
allows.
--line-length=num, -lnum
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.
See Also
t1disasm(1), t1ascii(1), t1binary(1), t1unmac(1), t1mac(1) AdobeType1FontFormat is available free from Adobe as a PDF file. http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/PDFS/TN/T1_SPEC.PDFTheType2CharstringFormat, 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/developer/PDFS/TN/5177.Type2.pdf
Synopsis
t1asm [-a|-b] [-llength] [input [output]]
