From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 22 15:00:34 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 039DC1065670 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:00:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@slightlystrange.org) Received: from catflap.slightlystrange.org (cpc2-cmbg1-0-0-cust385.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [82.21.105.130]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACC2A8FC17 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:00:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan by catflap.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 4.72 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1ObxGC-000HkO-9I; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:00:32 +0100 Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:00:32 +0100 From: Daniel Bye To: User Questions Message-ID: <20100722150032.GB54396@catflap.slightlystrange.org> Mail-Followup-To: User Questions , Matthias Apitz , Ryan Coleman References: <20100722143910.GA9261@current.Sisis.de> <8333827E-9AE5-4374-91EC-68B620BEFBBB@cwis.biz> <20100722145710.GB9261@current.Sisis.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="8P1HSweYDcXXzwPJ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100722145710.GB9261@current.Sisis.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-PGP-Fingerprint: D349 B109 0EB8 2554 4D75 B79A 8B17 F97C 1622 166A X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE amd64 Sender: Daniel Bye Cc: Matthias Apitz , Ryan Coleman Subject: Re: where is pfm2afm X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Bye List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:00:34 -0000 --8P1HSweYDcXXzwPJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 04:57:10PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El d=EDa Thursday, July 22, 2010 a las 09:47:52AM -0500, Ryan Coleman esc= ribi=F3: >=20 > > It converts Postscript Font files into Adobe Font Manager files. > >=20 > > I've have not a use for it (yet). >=20 > Background of my question is the need of Type 1 font files which cover > most of the European Unicode scripts for the usage in CUPS. >=20 > In some FAQ I read: >=20 > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Font-HOWTO/ >=20 > 9.2. Type 1 Fonts and Metafont > 9.2.1. Dealing With Mac and Windows Formats > Many foundries ship fonts with Windows and Mac users in mind. This can > sometimes pose a problem. Typically, the ``Windows fonts'' are fairly > easy to handle, because they are packed in a zip file. The only work to > be done is converting the pfm file to and afm file (using pfm2afm).... >=20 > That's why the question: >=20 > > > Is 'pfm2afm' part of some port in /usr/ports? Thanks in advance print/ghostscript* installs something called pf2afm, which seems to be the same thing. Dan --=20 Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ --8P1HSweYDcXXzwPJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkxIXRAACgkQixf5fBYiFmrj6wCdFa2YHsUOrHePNZuZpShcJsSN nrAAn1xLNiS0yAqCPFmnSarVRHOOuwc9 =USO8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8P1HSweYDcXXzwPJ--