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## NAME
       pfb2pfa - convert a type1 pfb file (binary MSDOS) into a pfa (ASCII)

## SYNOPSIS
       pfb2pfa [-v] pfbfile [pfafile]

## DESCRIPTION
       Program  converts  a  binary MSDOS representation for a type1 PostScript font into a readable
       ASCII version.  The MSDOS newline (\r) is converted into the UNIX newline (\n).   The  output
       is written in a file whose name is the name that is provided on the command line or the base‐
       name of the input file plus extension ".pfa".

       With the -v option you get some information about what the program is doing.

## AUTHOR
       Piet Tutelaers
       Maintained in TeX Live; please send bug reports or other correspondence
       to <tex-k@tug.org> (<http://lists.tug.org/tex-k>).





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