https://github.com/nih-at/ttftot42

Use TrueType fonts with PostScript interpreters with TrueType rasterizers. (deprecated)
https://github.com/nih-at/ttftot42

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Use TrueType fonts with PostScript interpreters with TrueType rasterizers. (deprecated)

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/nih-at/ttftot42
• Owner: nih-at
• Created: 2017-12-14T10:10:37.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-12-16T13:03:04.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-01-29T06:17:52.786Z (5 months ago)
• Language: C
• Homepage: https://nih.at/ttftot42
• Size: 468 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: ChangeLog
  • Authors: AUTHORS

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• AwesomeInterpreter - ttftot42

README

        
**_Development on this project has stopped. It will no longer be updated._**

This is `ttftot42`, a program to facilitate using TrueType fonts on

PostScript interpreters with TrueType rasterizer.

You need the [FreeType](http://www.freetype.org/) library to compile and use it.

TrueType fonts cannot be converted to Type 1 fonts without loss of

quality, since conversion introduces rounding errors and loses hinting

information.  Therefore, newer PostScript interpreters (Adobe

PostScript since version 2013, ghostscript since 5.03) include a

TrueType rasterizers.  To use a TrueType font with them, it has to be

embedded in a PostScript font dictionary; this format is called Type 42.

This program generates such Type 42 fonts from TrueType fonts.  It

can also generate Adobe Font Metrics files (AFM files), including

kerning information.

Support for the creation of CID keyed fonts from large TrueType

fonts (East Asian or Unicode fonts) is included in this version, but

it is far from finished: AFM files are not created and glyph

substitution for vertical writing mode and alternative glyph forms

(e. g. localized versions of kanji) is not done, since support for it

is not implemented in FreeType 1.2.  Thus, the resulting fonts cannot

be used in vertical writing mode.

Not yet supported are TrueType Collections.

If you make a binary distribution, please include a pointer to the

distribution site:

	https://nih.at/ttftot42

The latest version can always be found there.

Mail suggestions and bug reports to .