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The Web2c complement of font utilities merely implements a few basic
conversions. Many other more sophisticated font utilities exist; most
are in `CTAN:/fonts/utilities' (for CTAN info,
see section `unixtex.ftp' in Kpathsea). Here are some of the most
commonly-requested items:
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AFM (Adobe font metric) to TFM conversion: see section `Invoking afm2tfm' in Dvips, and `CTAN:/fonts/utilities/afmtopl'.
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BDF (the X bitmap format) conversion:
`ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/bdf.tar.gz'.
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Editing of bitmap fonts: Xbfe from the GNU font utilities mentioned
below; the X BDF-editing programs available from
`ftp://ftp.x.org/R5contrib/xfed.tar.Z' and
`ftp://ftp.x.org/R5contrib/xfedor.tar.Z'; and finally, if your
fonts have only 128 characters, you can use the old
gftopxl,
pxtoch, and chtopx programs from
`ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/web'.
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PK bitmaps from PostScript fonts: gsftopk from the `xdvik'
distribution or from `CTAN:/fonts/utilities/gsftopk';
alternatively, ps2pk, from `CTAN:/fonts/utilities/ps2pk'.
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PostScript Type 1 font format conversion (i.e., between PFA and PFB
formats): `ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/t1utils.tar.gz'.
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Scanned image conversion: the (aging) GNU font utilities convert type
specimen images to Metafont, PostScript, etc.:
`ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/fontutils-0.6.tar.gz'.
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Virtual font creation: `CTAN:/fonts/utilities/fontinst'.
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