T1TESTPAGE(1)

📦 version 2026.0, in alpine 3.24

💅 T1TESTPAGE 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual page for t1testpage — she's a little legend from the LCDF Typetools fam and she's about to make you a whole proof sheet 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

t1testpage — make a PostScript proof for a Type 1 font, no cap 🖨️✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

t1testpage [font...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically, T1testpage whips up a PostScript proof document for the Type 1 font file you point it at, and then it just… writes it straight to standard output. iconic behavior honestly 💅

the proof shows every single glyph in the font — like, all of them — and it includes each one's glyph name AND its encoding. yes, both. she's thorough. 👑

the font argument should be the name of a PFA or PFB font file. literally just the filename, bestie.

if you give her more than one font? the output proof contains all the fonts, in order. queued up like a little lineup 🧚

and if font is omitted entirely? no worries. t1testpage will read a font file from standard input instead. she's flexible like that 🫶

heads up babes — T1testpage is preliminary software. it's giving work-in-progress. treat her gently 😭

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -g glyphs, --glyph=glyphs — only print the glyphs that match glyphs. the argument is a glyph pattern and it uses shell-like matching rules, so like, -g 'A*' will match the glyphs 'A', 'Atilde', and 'Ampersand', among others 💖 you can drop this option multiple times, OR shove multiple space-separated patterns into one single option. your call, main character 🎀
  • -s, --smoke — print smoke proofs, which means one glyph per page. lowkey luxurious spacing ngl. > this option is preliminary, so don't come for her if it's quirky 🙈
  • -o file, --output=file — write the output proof to file instead of standard output. redirect your destiny 💫
  • -h, --help — print usage info and dip out. bye bestie 👋
  • -v, --version — print the version number plus some short non-warranty information, then exit. receipts only, no promises ✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Eddie Kohler (ekohler@gmail.com) — the icon, the moment, the whole entire vibe 🫶🌸

Version 2.110 · LCDF Typetools — that's the whole T1TESTPAGE(1) situation bestie, go forth and proof those fonts, slay, periodt 💅🦋✨

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