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T1UTILS VERSION 1.30 NOTES

You need an ANSI C compiler, such as gcc.

Just type `./configure', then `make'. `make install' will build and install the utilities and their manual pages.

`./configure' accepts the usual options. See `INSTALL' for more details. The most commonly used option is `--prefix', which can be used to install the utilities in a place other than /usr/local.

Changes since version 1.2 (c) 1998-2003 Eddie Kohler, under the same redistribution copyright as I. Lee Hetherington's. See below for I. Lee Hetherington's original README from 1992, updated slightly for today's t1utils.

Eddie Kohler
kohler@icir.org

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t1utils is a collection of simple type-1 font manipulation programs. Together, they allow you to convert between PFA (ASCII) and PFB (binary) formats, disassemble PFA or PFB files into human-readable form, reassemble them into PFA or PFB format. Additionally you can extract font resources from a Macintosh font file (ATM/Laserwriter), or create a Macintosh Type 1 font file from a PFA or PFB font.

There are currently six programs:

t1ascii converts PFB files to PFA format.

t1binary converts PFA files to PFB format.

t1disasm        disassembles a type-1 font (PFA or PFB format) into a
                raw, human-readable text form for subsequent hand
                editing, tweaking, hint fixing, etc...

t1asm           assembles type-1 font into PFA or PFB format from 
                human-readable form produced by t1disasm.

t1unmac         extracts POST resources from a Macintosh type-1 file
                (ATM/Laserwriter) into PFA or PFB format for use outside
                the Macintosh environment. The Macintosh file should be
                stored in MacBinary, AppleSingle, AppleDouble, or BinHex
                format, or as a raw resource fork. Note that t1unmac does
                not have to run on a Macintosh, but makes Macintosh type-1
                fonts available to Unix machines and PCs.

t1mac           creates a Macintosh Type 1 file from a PFA or PFB-format
                Type 1 font. Writes the Macintosh file in MacBinary,
                AppleSingle, AppleDouble, or BinHex format, or as a raw
                resource fork. WARNING: This will not suffice to use the
                new font on a Macintosh, as Macintoshes cannot read raw
                Type 1 fonts. You will need to create a font suitcase
                containing bitmap fonts if you do not have such a suitcase
                for the font already. T1utils cannot help you do this.

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Thanks to Kai-Uwe Herbing (herbing@netmbx.netmbx.de) for the MS-DOS port (Microsoft C/C++ compiler).

The copyright on all of the tools in t1utils looks like:

        Copyright (c) 1992 by I. Lee Hetherington, all rights
        reserved.
        
        Permission is hereby granted to use, modify, and distribute
        this program for any purpose provided this copyright notice
        and the one below remain intact.

Note that these tools should not be used to illegally copy type-1 font programs. Typeface design is an intricate art that should be rewarded.

I. Lee Hetherington
ilh@lcs.mit.edu

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