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FONTDATABASE(5) File Formats Manual FONTDATABASE(5) NAME
FontDataBase - database of fonts accessible to t1lib. DESCRIPTION
This manual page has been written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. It has been adapted from the documentation included in the upstream t1lib distribution. /etc/t1lib/FontDataBase is a text file which contains, minimally, the basenames of Type 1 font files to be made accessible to the t1lib font rasterizer library. The format is intentionally similar to that of the fonts.dir and fonts.scale files used by X11. Line 1 of this file contains a positive integer specifying the number of fonts declared in that file. This is as in the fonts.dir files of the X11 system. All remaining lines contain declarations of one font each. The only thing taken from such a line is the last string (delimited by white space) in it. It is assumed to be a filename of the format basename.someextension. The basename part is assumed to be the basename(1) of a fontfile. After the a string has been parsed, the extension is cut off and replaced in turn with .pfa and .pfb. The initialization routine tries to open a font file in its search path with one of the resulting filenames. The remainder of the line, i.e., from beginning to the start of the filename string, is completely ignored and thus may contain information for other programs. EXAMPLES
Here is a minimal font database file for 4 fonts: 4 isvl.afm isvli.afm isvd.afm isvdi.afm This file is minimal, because it contains just the information needed, and nothing not needed by the library. Here is a more realistic example, which allows an application to match a fully qualified X11 fontname to a FontID in t1lib. This is also a valid font database file: 4 Souvenir Souvenir-Light --- -itc-souvenir-light-r-normal--#-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 isvl.afm Souvenir Souvenir-LightItalic -*- -itc-souvenir-light-i-normal--#-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 isvli.afm Souvenir-Demi *-- -itc-souvenir-demi-r-normal--#-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 isvd.afm Souvenir-DemiItalic **- -itc-souvenir-demi-i-normal--#-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 isvdi.afm FILES
/etc/t1lib/FontDataBase SEE ALSO
mkfontdir(1x) FONTDATABASE(5)
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AFM(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation AFM(3) NAME
Font::AFM - Interface to Adobe Font Metrics files SYNOPSIS
use Font::AFM; $h = new Font::AFM "Helvetica"; $copyright = $h->Notice; $w = $h->Wx->{"aring"}; $w = $h->stringwidth("Gisle", 10); $h->dump; # for debugging DESCRIPTION
This module implements the Font::AFM class. Objects of this class are initialised from an AFM (Adobe Font Metrics) file and allow you to obtain information about the font and the metrics of the various glyphs in the font. All measurements in AFM files are given in terms of units equal to 1/1000 of the scale factor of the font being used. To compute actual sizes in a document, these amounts should be multiplied by (scale factor of font)/1000. The following methods are available: $afm = Font::AFM->new($fontname) Object constructor. Takes the name of the font as argument. Croaks if the font can not be found. $afm->latin1_wx_table() Returns a 256-element array, where each element contains the width of the corresponding character in the iso-8859-1 character set. $afm->stringwidth($string, [$fontsize]) Returns the width of the argument string. The string is assumed to be encoded in the iso-8859-1 character set. A second argument can be used to scale the width according to the font size. $afm->FontName The name of the font as presented to the PostScript language "findfont" operator, for instance "Times-Roman". $afm->FullName Unique, human-readable name for an individual font, for instance "Times Roman". $afm->FamilyName Human-readable name for a group of fonts that are stylistic variants of a single design. All fonts that are members of such a group should have exactly the same "FamilyName". Example of a family name is "Times". $afm->Weight Human-readable name for the weight, or "boldness", attribute of a font. Examples are "Roman", "Bold", "Light". $afm->ItalicAngle Angle in degrees counterclockwise from the vertical of the dominant vertical strokes of the font. $afm->IsFixedPitch If "true", the font is a fixed-pitch (monospaced) font. $afm->FontBBox A string of four numbers giving the lower-left x, lower-left y, upper-right x, and upper-right y of the font bounding box. The font bounding box is the smallest rectangle enclosing the shape that would result if all the characters of the font were placed with their origins coincident, and then painted. $afm->UnderlinePosition Recommended distance from the baseline for positioning underline strokes. This number is the y coordinate of the center of the stroke. $afm->UnderlineThickness Recommended stroke width for underlining. $afm->Version Version number of the font. $afm->Notice Trademark or copyright notice, if applicable. $afm->Comment Comments found in the AFM file. $afm->EncodingScheme The name of the standard encoding scheme for the font. Most Adobe fonts use the "AdobeStandardEncoding". Special fonts might state "FontSpecific". $afm->CapHeight Usually the y-value of the top of the capital H. $afm->XHeight Typically the y-value of the top of the lowercase x. $afm->Ascender Typically the y-value of the top of the lowercase d. $afm->Descender Typically the y-value of the bottom of the lowercase p. $afm->Wx Returns a hash table that maps from glyph names to the width of that glyph. $afm->BBox Returns a hash table that maps from glyph names to bounding box information. The bounding box consist of four numbers: llx, lly, urx, ury. $afm->dump Dumps the content of the Font::AFM object to STDOUT. Might sometimes be useful for debugging. The AFM specification can be found at: http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/pdfs/tn/5004.AFM_Spec.pdf ENVIRONMENT
METRICS Contains the path to search for AFM-files. Format is as for the PATH environment variable. The default path built into this library is: /usr/lib/afm:/usr/local/lib/afm:/usr/openwin/lib/fonts/afm/:. BUGS
Kerning data and composite character data are not yet parsed. Ligature data is not parsed. COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1995-1998 Gisle Aas. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.16.2 2008-06-03 AFM(3)