PFB2PFA(1)

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🎀 PFB2PFA(1) 🎀 — the General Commands Manual, bestie!

✨ NAME ✨

okay so pfb2pfa is the tool that converts a type1 pfb file (binary MSDOS) into a pfa (ASCII) 💖

📜 SYNOPSIS ✨

pfb2pfa [-v] pfbfile [pfafile]

💅 DESCRIPTION ✨

okay this little program takes a binary MSDOS representation of a type1 PostScript font and turns it into a totally readable ASCII version 🧚 the MSDOS newline (\r) gets swapped out for the UNIX newline (\n), so it's giving clean, no-drama line endings 🌸

the output gets written to a file. the name is whatever you gave on the command line, or if you didn't give one, it's the basename of the input file with ".pfa" slapped on the end 🦋

keep in mind that the output filename is either the one you typed or the basename plus ".pfa", so double check before you go overwriting your favourite fonts 😭
  • -v — this one is the main character of the vibe check 🔥 it makes the program tell you what it's up to while it works. literally so helpful when you want to see the magic happen 🍓

🫶 AUTHOR ✨

okay so the author is Piet Tutelaers 👑

this is maintained in TeX Live 🌈 if you find a bug or just want to chat about it, send your bug reports or other correspondence to tex-k@tug.org. there's also a little hangout spot over at http://lists.tug.org/tex-k 💜

bestie, this page was last updated on 1 Feb 2016 and it belongs to PFB2PFA(1) 💖✨ slay forever 💅🌸

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