getafm(1)

getafm1

Create an afm file for a postscript font.

Usage

getafm FontName > output.ps

Overview

Getafm generates a PostScript file which prints an AFM file for a font to the printer's output channel. The output of getafm should be sent to a printer, or to GhostScript. For example,

getafm Times-Roman | gsnd - >Times-Roman.afm

Trademarks

PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.

Releases

17 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 1.1–1.3
  2. 2.0–3.1
  3. 4.0–6.0
  4. 7–12

Author

Robert Joop ([email protected]), Angus Duggan

Bugs

Kerning information is not generated by getafm; it is best to use original AFM files if possible.

From psutils 1.17.dfsg-4 in Debian 12 (Bookworm). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.