NAME

       t1asm - assemble PostScript Type 1 font

SYNOPSIS

       t1asm [-a|-b] [-l length] [input [output]]

DESCRIPTION

       t1asm  assembles  Adobe Type 1 font programs into either PFA (hexadecimal) or PFB (binary) formats from a
       human-readable form. If the file output is not specified output goes to the standard output. If the  file
       input is not specified input comes from the standard input.

       t1asm  tokenizes  the  charstring  data  and performs eexec and charstring encryption as specified in the
       ``black book,'' Adobe Type 1 Font Format.

       The input must have a line of the form
              /-|{string currentfile exch readstring pop}executeonly def
       which defines the command, in this case `-|', that is to start charstring data. It is  an  error  not  to
       define such a command. Another common name for this command is `RD'.

       After the start of the Subrs array in the input, all open braces `{' not in a comment begin a charstring.
       Such a charstring is terminated by the next non-comment close brace `}'. Within such a  charstring,  only
       comments,  integers,  and  valid  charstring  commands are allowed. Valid charstring command names can be
       found in Adobe Type 1 Font Format and other documents describing the newer Type  2  opcodes.  The  format
       within  a  charstring  is  unimportant  as  long as integers and commands are separated by at least a one
       whitespace (space, tab, newline) character. Note that within charstrings, comments are discarded  because
       they cannot be encoded.

OPTIONS

       --pfa, -a
            Output in PFA (ASCII) format.

       --pfb, -b
            Output in PFB (binary) format. This is the default.

       --block-length=num, -l num
            PFB  only:  Set  the  maximum  output block length to num.  The default length is as large as memory
            allows.

       --line-length=num, -l num
            PFA only: Set the maximum length of encrypted lines in the output to  num.   (These  are  the  lines
            consisting wholly of hexadecimal digits.) The default is 64.

EXAMPLES

       % t1asm Utopia-Regular.raw > Utopia-Regular.pfb
       % t1asm -a Utopia-Regular.raw > Utopia-Regular.pfa

SEE ALSO

       t1disasm(1), t1ascii(1), t1binary(1), t1unmac(1), t1mac(1)

       Adobe    Type    1    Font    Format    is    available    free    from    Adobe    as    a   PDF   file.
       http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/PDFS/TN/T1_SPEC.PDF

       The Type 2 Charstring Format, also available from Adobe as  a  PDF  file,  describes  the  newer  Type  2
       operators,  which  are  also  used  in  some  multiple-master  Type 1 fonts like Adobe Jenson and Kepler.
       http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/PDFS/TN/5177.Type2.pdf

AUTHORS

       Lee Hetherington (ilh@lcs.mit.edu)
       Eddie Kohler (ekohler@gmail.com)