focal (1) afm2tfm.1.gz

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NAME
       afm2tfm - convert Adobe font metrics to TeX font metrics


DESCRIPTION
       PostScript  fonts  are  (or  should  be)  accompanied by font metric files such as Times-Roman.afm, which
       describes the characteristics of the font called Times-Roman.  To use such fonts with TeX,  we  need  TFM
       files that contain similar information. This program does that conversion.

       For all the details, see the dvips manual (http://tug.org/dvips).


FILES
       psfonts.map in the config directory used by dvips.


SEE ALSO
       dvips(1), tex(1), vptovf(1), fontinst(1), afm2pl(1), otftotfm(1)


BUGS
       An option to add letterspacing to the virtual font was rejected by Knuth because it would make the fi and
       fl ligatures break the normal rhythmic pattern.


AUTHORS
       Tomas Rokicki and Donald E. Knuth.

       Maintained  in  TeX  Live;  please  send  bug  reports   or   other   correspondence   to   tex-k@tug.org
       (http://lists.tug.org/tex-k).

                                                 1 February 2016                                      AFM2TFM(1)