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PS2PK(1)							      PS2PK(1)

NAME
       ps2pk - creates a TeX pkfont from a type1 PostScript font

SYNOPSIS
       pk2pk [ options] type1 [pkfont]

       options: -v -eenc -Xxres -Eexpansion -Sslant

       options: -Ppointsize -Rbaseres -raspectratio

       options: -Yyres -aAFMfile -mmodename

DESCRIPTION
       This program renders a given type1 PostScript font at a given pointsize
       (default 10.0 points)  and  resolution  (default	 300dpi)  into	a  TeX
       pkfont.

       To  generate the pkfont pk2ps needs a valid type1 fontname (for example
       Utopia-Regular, Utopia-Regula.pfb or Utopia-Regula.pfa) and its	corre‐
       sponding	 AFM-file  (Utopia-Regular.afm).  The program accepts both the
       MSDOS binary type1 format (Utopia-Regula.pfb) and its ASCII  equivalent
       (Utopia-Regular	or  Utopia-Regula.pfa).	  To locate the type1 font and
       its AFM-file ps2pk will use the environment T1INPUTS if it is set  oth‐
       erwise  its  built  in default (the -v flag will report which filenames
       are looked for).

       The program will make a pkfont in which the character codes are derived
       from  their AFM (Adobe Font Metrics) defined values.  This can be over‐
       ruled by specifying an explicit encoding file via the -e	 option.   The
       encoding file enc should contain a valid PostScript encoding containing
       PostScript names like /hyphen.  Here  is	 an  incomplete	 example  (see
       afm2tfm for complete syntax):

	      % This is the EC encoding.
	      /ECEncoding [	     % now 256 chars follow
	      % 0x00
		/grave /acute /circumflex /tilde /dieresis /hungarumlaut
		/ring /caron /breve /macron /dotaccent /cedilla
		/ogonek /quotesinglbase /guilsinglleft /guilsinglright

		(Rest of lines omitted.)

	      % 0xF0
		/eth /ntilde /ograve /oacute /ocircumflex /otilde
		/odieresis /oe /oslash /ugrave /uacute /ucircumflex
		/udieresis /yacute /thorn /germandbls ] def

       Options and arguments:

       -aAFMfile   Overrules the name that is used to locate the AFM file.

       -eenc	   Name of a file containing an encoding scheme (default - the
		   encoding named in the AFM-file is used).  The actual	 Post‐
		   Script  name	 of  the encoding scheme is written as a "spe‐
		   cial" at the end of the pkfont.

       -Eextension The extension factor (real value, default 1.0).

       -mmodename  A modename such as  would  be  used	by  METAFONT  (default
		   "Unknown mode").

       -Ppointsize The desired pointsize (real value, default 10.0 points).

       -Rbaseres   The	desired	 base  resolution  (integer value, default 300
		   dpi).  If this differs from the value of xres,  the	appro‐
		   priate magnification will be shown in the "specials" at the
		   end of the pkfont. If possible, this will be expressed as a
		   magstep,  otherwise as a real number. For example, a pkfont
		   with an xres of 329, using the default base	resolution  of
		   300,	 will include the "special" text "mag=magstep(0.5)" at
		   the end of the font.

       -raspectratio
		   The desired aspect  ratio  (expression,  integerY/integerX,
		   default  300/300).  This will be shown in the "specials" at
		   the end of the pkfont.  Setting the aspect ratio creates  a
		   value  for yres but an explicit yres value will take prece‐
		   dence.  Argument must be in "" if spaces  are  left	around
		   `/'.

       -Sslant	   The slant (real value, default 0.0).

       -Xxres	   The	resolution  in the X direction (integer value, default
		   300 dpi).

       -Yyres	   The resolution in the Y direction (integer  value,  default
		   the	value of xres). If yres differs from xres, a "special"
		   text giving the aspect ratio will be written at the end  of
		   the pkfont.

       -v	   Verbose flag. (Tells what the program is doing.)

       type1	   The	name  of  the  PostScript type1 font.  The name of the
		   AFM-file will be constructed from this name by removing the
		   extension  (if  suplied) and adding ".afm".	The PostScript
		   "FontName" is extracted from the AFM-file and written  into
		   a "special" at the end of the pkfont.

       [pkfont]	   The name of the resulting pkfont can be overruled with this
		   name.  The default name of pkfont is derived from the base‐
		   name	 of the type1 font, the pointsize and xres.  For exam‐
		   ple `ps2pk -P17.28 Utopia-Regular' will result in  `Utopia-
		   Regular17.300pk'.   An  explicit  value for the name of the
		   pkfont is necessary when the type1 font name already	 shows
		   the	point size, otherwise the pointsize value is catenated
		   on to the pkfont basename which  is	usually	 not  what  is
		   wanted.

       The following PK "specials" provide an internal check on the character‐
       istics of the pkfont, in accordance with the recommendations of the TeX
       Working Group on the TeX Directory Standard (TWG-TDS):
       "fontid=FontName",   "codingscheme=Encoding",   "fontfacebyte",	"mag",
       "mode=(ps2pk)modename", "pixels-per-inch", and "aspect-ratio" if it  is
       other than unity.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
       This  program  uses  the	 type1	hinting and rendering software IBM has
       donated to the X-consortium.

SEE ALSO
       `METAFONT: The Program', Donald Knuth.
       `The GFtoPK processor', belonging to the METAFONTware.
       `Adobe Font Metric Files', Version 3.0, PostScript Developer
       Support Group.
       afm2tfm(1)
       pk2bm(1)

VERSION
       1.1 (May 1992)

AUTHOR
       Piet Tutelaers
       rcpt@urc.tue.nl
       modified for ps2pkm
       by Pierre A. Mackay
       mackay@cs.washington.edu

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