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T1ASM(1)                               General Commands Manual                              T1ASM(1)



NAME
       t1asm - assemble PostScript Type 1 font

SYNOPSIS
       t1asm [-a|-b] [-l length] [input [output]]

DESCRIPTION
       t1asm assembles Adobe Type 1 font programs into either PFA (hexadecimal) or PFB (binary) for‐
       mats from a human-readable form. If the file output is not specified output goes to the stan‐
       dard 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,'' Adobe Type 1 Font Format.

       The input must have a line of the form
              /-|{string currentfile exch readstring pop}executeonly def
       which defines the command, in this case `-|', that is to start charstring data. It is an  er‐
       ror 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 Adobe Type 1 Font Format  and  other  documents  de‐
       scribing  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)  char‐
       acter. Note that within charstrings, comments are discarded because they cannot be encoded.

OPTIONS
       --pfa, -a
            Output in PFA (ASCII) format.

       --pfb, -b
            Output in PFB (binary) format. This is the default.

       --block-length=num, -l num
            PFB only: Set the maximum output block length to num.  The default length is as large as
            memory allows.

       --line-length=num, -l num
            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.

EXAMPLES
       % t1asm Utopia-Regular.raw > Utopia-Regular.pfb
       % t1asm -a Utopia-Regular.raw > Utopia-Regular.pfa

SEE ALSO
       t1disasm(1), t1ascii(1), t1binary(1), t1unmac(1), t1mac(1)

       Adobe  Type  1  Font  Format  is  available  free  from  Adobe  as  a PDF file.  http://part‐
       ners.adobe.com/asn/developer/PDFS/TN/T1_SPEC.PDF

       The Type 2 Charstring Format, 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

AUTHORS
       Lee Hetherington (ilh AT lcs.edu)
       Eddie Kohler (ekohler AT gmail.com)



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