T1UNMAC(1)

💖 T1UNMAC — bestie, let's un-Mac your font 💖

okay so real quick, this is t1unmac, it lives in the General Commands Manual, and it's here to do exactly one iconic thing: take a Mac PostScript Type 1 font and turn it into something the rest of the Unix world can actually read. slay.

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✨ NAME ✨

t1unmac — translate a Mac PostScript Type 1 font into PFA or PFB format 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

t1unmac [-a|-b] [-r] [input [output]]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so t1unmac extracts POST resources out of a Macintosh PostScript font file and builds you a fresh PFA (hexadecimal) or PFB (binary) font file. it's giving "rescued from the Mac ecosystem, now thriving elsewhere." 🎀

the input file, bestie, has to be in one of these formats:

• MacBinary I
• MacBinary II
• AppleSingle
• AppleDouble
• BinHex

…or it can just be a raw resource fork. and here's the thing — if it is a raw resource fork, you gotta pass the --raw option, no cap. otherwise t1unmac will just figure out what kind of file you handed it all on its own. she's smart like that. 🧚

if output isn't specified, the output goes to standard output. periodt.

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🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

• --pfa, -a — output in PFA (ASCII) format. text-coded, very demure.
• --pfb, -b — output in PFB (binary) format. and btw this is the default, so if you don't say anything, this is what you get. 👑
• --raw, -r — tells her that the input is a raw resource fork. don't skip this one if that's what you've got, fr fr.
• --macbinary — tells her the input is in MacBinary I or II format.
• --applesingle — tells her the input is in AppleSingle format.
• --appledouble — tells her the input is in AppleDouble format.
• --binhex — tells her the input is in BinHex 4.0 format.
• --block-length=num, -l num — PFB only! set the maximum output block length to num. the default length is as large as memory allows. yes, she will use everything she's got. 😭
• --line-length=num, -l num — PFA only! set the maximum length of the encrypted lines in the output to num. (these are the lines that consist wholly of hexadecimal digits, iykyk.) the default is 64. ✨

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

on Mac OS X, you can use t1unmac to translate a font into PFA or PFB format like this:

% t1unmac --raw FONTFILENAME/..namedfork/rsrc > OUTPUT

look at her go. main character energy. 💖

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

t1mac(1), t1ascii(1), t1binary(1), t1asm(1), t1disasm(1)

the whole friend group, honestly. go say hi.

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

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

ported to Microsoft C/C++ Compiler and the MS-DOS operating system by Kai-Uwe Herbing (herbing@netmbx.netmbx.de). talk about range. 💀✨

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and that's the whole page, bestie — this is Version 1.42 of t1unmac, straight out of the General Commands Manual. go un-Mac a font, you've got this. 💜🎀🦋