Supplements for True Type to PostScript Type 1 Converter

bz

A small program to draw the Bezier curves on an alphanumeric display. The recommended way of uing it is to run it from xterm with "Tiny" (if you want higher magnification) or "Unreadable" (if you want higher resolution) font and as big window size as possible. The size of the window can be obtained by running "stty -a". For everything else just "Use the source, Luke!"

cmpf

A small program to compare the rendering of two supposedly nearly-identical fonts at low resolutions. It requires the T1LIB library. This program may be used to compare the effect of various options of the converter on the resulting fonts. Create two .pfa files, one with one set of options, another with another set of options, then use this program to compare them.

lst.pl

A simple PERL script that generates an HTML file with the full list of all characters in all possible styles of the Variable-width and Fixed-width fonts. This file is quite convenient to look at the converted fonts in Netscape (or other graphical browser).

showg

A PERL script that draws the glyphs and their interesting metrics (such as coordinates of the dots, hints and blue zones) in PostScript. It works only with un-encoded font files. The intended use is like:

  showg <fontfile.t1a> <glyph-code>... >file.ps
  gv file.ps # start the Ghostscript viewer

As you can see, multiple glyph codes may be specified. The glyph codes are decimal. This program is quite valuable it you want to take a close-up view at the font.

The outlines are drawn in black, the ends of the curves and lines are marked as dots, the first dots of the outlines are fatter. The Blue Zones are drawn in light blue. The substituted hints are marked in red, the global hints are marked in blue. The coordinate grid is drawn in green. The stems and the values of coordinates are for convenience marked twice, on each size of the picture.