trusty (5) FontDatabase.5.gz

NAME

       FontDataBase - database of fonts accessible to t1lib.

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  has been written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution.  It has been adapted from the
       documentation included in the upstream t1lib distribution.

       /etc/t1lib/FontDataBase is a text file which contains, minimally, the basenames of Type 1 font  files  to
       be  made accessible to the t1lib font rasterizer library.  The format is intentionally similar to that of
       the fonts.dir and fonts.scale files used by X11.

       Line 1 of this file contains a positive integer specifying the number of fonts  declared  in  that  file.
       This is as in the fonts.dir files of the X11 system.

       All  remaining  lines contain declarations of one font each. The only thing taken from such a line is the
       last string (delimited  by  white  space)  in  it.  It  is  assumed  to  be  a  filename  of  the  format
       basename.someextension.

       The  basename  part  is assumed to be the basename(1) of a fontfile.  After the a string has been parsed,
       the extension is cut off and replaced in turn with .pfa and .pfb.  The initialization  routine  tries  to
       open a font file in its search path with one of the resulting filenames.

       The  remainder  of  the  line,  i.e.,  from  beginning to the start of the filename string, is completely
       ignored and thus may contain information for other programs.

EXAMPLES

       Here is a minimal font database file for 4 fonts:

       4
       isvl.afm
       isvli.afm
       isvd.afm
       isvdi.afm

       This file is minimal, because it contains just the information needed, and  nothing  not  needed  by  the
       library.

       Here  is a more realistic example, which allows an application to match a fully qualified X11 fontname to
       a FontID in t1lib.  This is also a valid font database file:

       4
       Souvenir Souvenir-Light       --- -itc-souvenir-light-r-normal--#-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 isvl.afm
       Souvenir Souvenir-LightItalic -*- -itc-souvenir-light-i-normal--#-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 isvli.afm
                 Souvenir-Demi       *-- -itc-souvenir-demi-r-normal--#-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 isvd.afm
                 Souvenir-DemiItalic **- -itc-souvenir-demi-i-normal--#-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 isvdi.afm

FILES

       /etc/t1lib/FontDataBase

SEE ALSO

       mkfontdir(1x)

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