T1BINARY(1)

💖 T1BINARY 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the General Commands Manual — it's the t1binary(1) page and it is literally about turning your fonts binary. yes. fonts. binary. we're doing this. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

t1binary — convert PostScript Type 1 font from ASCII to binary

no cap, that's the whole name. short, sweet, iconic. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

t1binary [-l length] [input [output]]

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. two optional files and one little flag. 🦋

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so here's the tea: t1binary takes Adobe Type 1 font programs that are chillin' in PFA format (that's the hexadecimal one, the ASCII one, the readable one) and converts them into PFB format (that's the binary one). glow-up: complete. ✨

and like, it's SO chill about where stuff goes:

• if you don't tell it what output file you want, the output just goes to standard output. slay.
• if you don't tell it what input file to read, it reads from standard input. she's flexible like that fr fr. 🫶

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --block-length=length, -l length — sets the maximum length of the sections in the PFB output to length. and the default? the default length is as large as memory allows. which is very main character energy honestly — she's gonna use everything she's got unless you tell her to chill. 😌

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

go check out her little friend group, they're all obsessed with each other:

• t1ascii(1)
• t1unmac(1)
• t1mac(1)
• t1disasm(1)
• t1asm(1)

also: Adobe Type 1 Font Format — the sacred text, the lore, the origin story. 📖✨

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

the people who made this happen, absolute legends, we stan:

• Lee Hetherington (ilh@lcs.mit.edu)
• Eddie Kohler (ekohler@gmail.com)

and — ported to the Microsoft C/C++ Compiler and the MS-DOS operating system by Kai-Uwe Herbing (herbing@netmbx.netmbx.de). historical. genuinely. 💀

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Version 1.42, babes — that's the one we're on, and that's a wrap on the T1BINARY(1) page. go convert something, bestie, you got this. 🦋💖✨