CTAN update: fontools
CTAN Announcements
ctan-ann at dante.de
Sun Aug 21 15:24:02 CEST 2005
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 Marc Penninga submitted an update to the
fontools
package.
This package provides a few tools to ease using fonts (especially
Truetype/Opentype ones) with Latex and fontinst:
AFM2AFM - reencode .afm files; designed to replace fontinst's
\reencodefont for big .afm files.
AUTOINST - simplify the use of the LCDF TypeTools by creating a
command file for otftotfm, plus .fd and .sty files.
CMAP2ENC - convert glyph indices in TrueType fonts without glyph
names (such as Linotype Palatino) to Adobe glyph names.
FONT2AFM - create font metrics; this is just a wrapper script
around tools such as pf2afm, ttf2afm, pfm2kpx and ot2kpx.
OT2KPX - extract all kerning pairs from an OpenType font.
PFM2KPX - extract all kerning pairs from buggy .pfm files (the
ones where pf2afm complains ".notdef character occurred among kern
pairs").
SHOWGLYPHS - create a pdf file that shows all glyphs in a font.
Location on CTAN: fonts/utilities/fontools
Summary description: Tools to simplify using fonts (especially TrueType/OpenType ones).
License type: gpl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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- A few bugfixes
- Added support files for a new encoding that may be useful for use with
OpenType fonts, since it contains much more empty slots (for alternate
glyphs and additional ligatures) than LY1.
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Thanks for the update.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
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