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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)

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MKCFM(1)						      General Commands Manual							  MKCFM(1)

NAME

       mkcfm - create summaries of font metric files in CID font directories

SYNOPSIS

       mkcfm [CID-font-directory-name]

DESCRIPTION

       There  is  usually only one CID font directory on the X font path. It is usually called /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID. If you do not specify
       an argument, mkcfm will try to go through the subdirectories of that directory, and create one summary of font metric files for	each  CID-
       Font (character descriptions) file and each CMap (Character Maps) file it finds. The summaries of font metric files are put in the existing
       CFM subdirectory. The CFM subdirectories are created when CID-keyed fonts are installed.

       If you specify a CID font directory as an argument, mkcfm will try to go through the subdirectories of that directory, and create one  sum-
       mary  of  font metric files for each CIDFont file and each CMap file it finds.  mkcfm will calculate the summaries of the font metric files
       stored in AFM subdirectories of the CID font directory.

       Those summaries are needed by the rasterizer of CID-keyed fonts to speed up the response to X font calls. If those files do not exist,  CID
       rasterizer  will  have  to go through usually large font metric files, and calculate the summaries itself each time the font is called. You
       will notice a substantial wait on a call to a large CID-keyed font.

FILES

       .afm files     Each CID-keyed font file is supposed to have a font metric file (.afm file). mkcfm creates summary  files  (.cfm	files)	of
		      those  font metric files. mkcfm should be run whenever a change is made to the files stored in the subdirectories of the CID
		      font directory. For example, it should be run when new CID fonts are installed.

       .cfm files     Summaries of font metric (.afm) files created by mkcfm.

SEE ALSO

       The rasterizer for CID-keyed fonts in the directory xc/lib/font/Type1.

CID Fonts Version 1.0						    Release 1.0 							  MKCFM(1)

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