T1MAC(1)

📦 version 2026.0, in alpine 3.24

💖 t1mac — the glow-up your Type 1 font deserves 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the t1mac page from the General Commands Manual section. yes this is T1MAC(1), and yes it's about to be your new fave. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

t1mac — translate a PFA or PFB PostScript Type 1 font into Macintosh format 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

t1mac [--macbinary | --applesingle | --appledouble | --binhex | --raw]
[--filename name] [input [output]]

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so like, t1mac reads a PFA (hexadecimal) or PFB (binary) PostScript Type 1 font file and generates an equivalent Macintosh Type 1 font file. it's giving translator, it's giving bridge between worlds. 🌈

the output file can be in MacBinary II, AppleSingle, AppleDouble, or BinHex format, or it can be a raw resource fork. the default is MacBinary II — use an option to choose a different format. and if the output file is not specified, output goes to the standard output. easy. 💅

WARNING: the output of t1mac is not sufficient to use the font, since Macintoshes can't read raw Type 1 fonts. you will need to create a font suitcase containing bitmap fonts if you do not have such a suitcase for the font already. t1mac cannot help you do this. 😭 not me wishing it could, but no, it literally can't. so plan accordingly bestie.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • --raw, -r — indicates that output should be a raw resource fork. 🫶
  • --macbinary — indicates that output should be in MacBinary I or II format. this is the default. ⭐
  • --applesingle — indicates that output should be in AppleSingle format. 🍓
  • --appledouble — indicates that output should be in AppleDouble format. 🧚
  • --binhex — indicates that output should be in BinHex 4.0 format. 💜
  • --filename=name, -n name — sets the Macintosh filename of the output font to name. the default is to construct the filename from the font's name using established Macintosh conventions. 📝 heads up: this option is not useful when output is a raw resource fork. 🙈

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

the whole squad, fr fr. go read them, iykyk. 👑

💖 AUTHORS 💖

Eddie Kohler (ekohler@gmail.com) — thank you for your service, iconic behavior, no cap. 🫡💐

okay that's the whole page bestie, and for the cute sign-off: this is Version 1.42, from the General Commands Manual, and yeah — T1MAC(1), that's the one. slay, go convert some fonts, mwah. 💅✨🎀

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