CTAN has a new package: t1infos
Date: August 19, 2004 7:47:07 PM CEST
A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its
way to your favorite mirror.
Thank you for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
The author provides this information:
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Two little programs written in C (using the t1lib) for scanning Type 1
fonts, and
doing:
a) compute the "black area" of each glyph, with how much percent of
the square
containing the glyph is black.
b) checking if the "extremas" (see Adobe Type 1 specifications) of
the outline are
correct, and tell which one are missing.
A postscript dictionary containing three algorithms for "automatic
kerning"
(the kerning is computed "on the fly" instead of being pre-computed by
an external
software like TeX, groff or lout; very useful for some PostScript
hacking);
two of them are quite classical ; one is original and is
Postscript-optimized.
The postscript file contains both a demonstration code and the
dictionary itself;
thus it can be previewed with gv.
T1infos – Utilities for PostScript fonts
There are here two little programs written in C (using t1lib) for scanning Type 1 fonts, and doing:
- compute the
black area
of each glyph, with how much percent of the square containing the glyph is black, and - checking if the
extremas
(see Adobe Type 1 specifications) of the outline are correct, and tell which one are missing.
There is also here a PostScript dictionary containing three
algorithms for automatic kerning (the kerning is computed
on the fly
instead of being pre-computed by
external software like TeX, groff or lout; very useful for some
PostScript hacking). Two of these algorithms are quite classical;
the third is original and is PostScript-optimized. The PostScript
file in the distribution contains both demonstration code and the
dictionary itself.
| Package | T1infos |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Maintainer | Thomas Baruchel |