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pfb2pfa(1)

pfb2pfa1

Convert a type1 pfb file (binary msdos) into a pfa (ascii)

Usage

pfb2pfa [-v] pfbfile [pfafile]

Overview

Program converts a binary MSDOS representation for a type1 PostScript font into a readable ASCII version. The MSDOS newline (\r) is converted into the UNIX newline (\n). The output is written in a file whose name is the name that is provided on the command line or the basename of the input file plus extension ".pfa".

With the -v option you get some information about what the program is doing.

History

  • Arch Linux 2026-11-01 to Debian 9 (Stretch): the text shown here
  • Debian 8 (Jessie) to Debian 4.0 (Etch)
  • Debian 3.1 (Sarge) to Debian 1.3 (Bo)

Author

Piet Tutelaers
Maintained in TeX Live; please send bug reports or other correspondence
to [email protected] (http://lists.tug.org/tex-k).

From texlive-doc 2026.1-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.