NAME

       afm2afm - reencode an afm file

SYNOPSIS

       afm2afm [-help] [-encoding encodingfile] [-kpx kpxfile] [-output outputfile] afmfile

DESCRIPTION

       afm2afm re-encodes an afm file.

       Metrics  (including kerning data) for characters not present in the chosen encoding are excluded from the
       output, which resuls in (potentially much) smaller files.

       Additional kerning pairs can be added to the output file.  If you don't specify an encoding file, the afm
       file isn't re-encoded; however, all unused (unencoded) data is still pruned.

       The program also generates an entry for a dvips-style map file, but only if the afm  file  has  been  re-
       encoded  and  the  output  was  written  to  file  (i.e.,  if both the -encoding and -output options were
       specified).

OPTIONS AND ARGUMENTS

       -help
           Print a short description of the syntax

       -encoding encodingfile
           Re-encode to the enconding in encodingfile

       -kpx kpxfile
           Read additional kerning pairs from kpxfile and add these to the output.  This option cannot  be  used
           to  override  values from the input afm file, since afm2afm will write both old and new values to the
           output!

           The kpxfile should contain kerning data in standard afm format, i.e.  for  each  kerning  pair  there
           should be a line

               KPX <left_glyph> <right_glyph> <amount>

           All other lines in the kpxfile are ignored.

       -output outputfile
           Write the result to outputfile instead of "stdout".

       afmfile
           The afm file to be re-encoded.

       You  may  use  either  one  or  two  dashes before options, and option names may be shortened to a unique
       prefix.

AUTHOR

       Marc Penninga <marcpenninga@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2005-2013 Marc Penninga.

LICENSE

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify  it  under  the  terms  of  the  GNU
       General  Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
       (at your option) any later version.  A copy of the GNU General Public License is included  with  afm2afm;
       see the file GPLv2.txt.

DISCLAIMER

       This  program  is  distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
       the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General  Public
       License for more details.

RECENT CHANGES

       (See the source code for the rest of the story.)

       2013-08-07  Added  the  -kpx  command-line option.  Replaced all "given/when" constructions in the source
                   code by "if"'s, to avoid warnings about experimental features in Perl 5.18 and later.

       2012-02-01  Refactored the code; added the "no re-encoding, only pruning" functionality.

fontools                                           2013-08-07                                         AFM2AFM(1)