batch getafm conversion

batch getafm conversion

[Idris Samawi Hamid]

Dear gang,

I found a TeXLive utility, getafm, that generates an afm file from a pfb file. 
I need to generate a large number of afms, but I'm having difficulty getting 
this utility to work:

getafm <myfont.pfb> > <myfont>.afm

works fine, but

getafm *.pfb > *.afm

does not. There does not appear to be any help info for getafm either;

getafm -h[--help] actually generates an on-screen afm listing(?)

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can do this?

Thnx in advance
Idris

============================
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: batch getafm conversion

[Thomas A.Schmitz]

Idris,

In order to get a regular afm via this tool, you need a more 
complicated syntax, see  the man page below. And to make this for a 
number of files, you'll need a real shell (with a for ... do syntax). 
If you can run something like zsh on your box, I'll tell you how 
tomorrow.

Best

Thomas



GETAFM(1)                                                            
GETAFM(1)



NAME
        getafm - create an AFM file for a PostScript font.

SYNOPSIS
        getafm FontName > output.ps

DESCRIPTION
        Getafm  generates a PostScript file which prints an AFM file for 
a font
        to the printer's output channel. The output of getafm should be 
sent to
        a printer, or to GhostScript. For example,

                     getafm Times-Roman | gsnd - >Times-Roman.afm


AUTHOR
        Robert Joop (rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de), Angus Duggan

SEE ALSO
        psbook(1),  psselect(1),  pstops(1), epsffit(1), psnup(1), 
psresize(1),
        psmerge(1), fixscribeps(1), getafm(1), fixdlsrps(1),  
fixfmps(1),  fix-
        macps(1),  fixpsditps(1),  fixpspps(1),  fixtpps(1), 
fixwfwps(1), fixw-
        pps(1), fixwwps(1), extractres(1), includeres(1)

TRADEMARKS
        PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.

BUGS
        Kerning information is not generated by getafm; it is best to 
use orig-
        inal AFM files if possible.



                         PSUtils Release 1 Patchlevel 17              
GETAFM(1)







On Apr 5, 2005, at 11:46 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

> Dear gang,
>
> I found a TeXLive utility, getafm, that generates an afm file from a 
> pfb file.
> I need to generate a large number of afms, but I'm having difficulty 
> getting
> this utility to work:
>
> getafm <myfont.pfb> > <myfont>.afm
>
> works fine, but
>
> getafm *.pfb > *.afm
>
> does not. There does not appear to be any help info for getafm either;
>
> getafm -h[--help] actually generates an on-screen afm listing(?)
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can do this?
>
> Thnx in advance
> Idris
>
> ============================
> Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
> Department of Philosophy
> Colorado State University
> Fort Collins, CO 80523
>
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