
Readme for mkfontdb.py 1.1
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mkfontdb.py is a script that scans Type1 afm files and creates 'font
database' files for X11 and Sketch.

mkfontdb.py is distributed as part of Sketch and individually. Version
1.0 is the first version that is available independently from Sketch and
it replaces mkfontdir.py from Sketch 0.5.3 and earlier. I've changed the
name to avoid confusion with X's mkfontdir program.

Both mkfontdb.py and Sketch are available from the Sketch homepage at
http://www.online.de/home/sketch.

If you find bugs or have some comments or suggestions, contact me at
sketch@online.de


Usage:
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If the python interpreter is on your $PATH, you should be able to
execute the script directly. 'mkfontdb.py -h' prints a help message.


For a description of the heuristics used to extract the information
needed to build fonts.scale files from AFM-file, see the comments in
mkfontdb.py.

Changes:
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Version 1.1:
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 - X fonts.scale files now contain the number of fonts in the first line

 - Bug fixes


Version 1.0:
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This is a cleaner implementation of the mkfontdir.py script distributed
with Sketch 0.5.3 and earlier. It uses the same heuristics as before, so
it should produce the same output as before.

The main difference from the user's point of view is that the script now
produces fonts.scale files by default, not sfd-files. The commandline
options are also different.

