From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/19639 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thomas A.Schmitz Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: batch getafm conversion Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 00:52:52 +0200 Message-ID: <615663d5214006e31b2ad8c349c94bfb@uni-bonn.de> References: <425D5DAD@webmail.colostate.edu> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112743704 3975 80.91.229.2 (5 Apr 2005 23:28:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 23:28:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Apr 06 01:28:22 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DIxSq-0006Sn-Hh for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 01:28:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D959612816; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 01:30:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 14936-03-2; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 01:30:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71EA312796; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 01:30:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81DAA12793 for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 01:30:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 14936-03 for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 01:30:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailout08.sul.t-online.com (mailout08.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.20]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AA07127EF for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 00:52:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from fwd30.aul.t-online.de by mailout08.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 1DIwuj-0004ki-00; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 00:52:53 +0200 Original-Received: from [192.168.0.2] (rXkuTwZfgewMWGZn58eSC3BJmkzRTJ9g2m6ulSWFm7EFZuuZFBT7Yb@[84.129.107.209]) by fwd30.sul.t-online.de with esmtp id 1DIwuj-08w5Y00; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 00:52:53 +0200 In-Reply-To: <425D5DAD@webmail.colostate.edu> Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) X-ID: rXkuTwZfgewMWGZn58eSC3BJmkzRTJ9g2m6ulSWFm7EFZuuZFBT7Yb@t-dialin.net X-TOI-MSGID: 939b29b8-3f89-41ae-92e5-45bf18035be2 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:19639 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:19639 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 > .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 > > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context >