type1inst(1)

NAME

type1inst - Type 1 PostScript font installation utility

for the X Window System and Ghostscript

VERSION

0.6.1 (February 11 1998)

SYNOPSIS

type1inst [-nox] [-nogs] [-samples] [-nolog] [-q] [-quiet]
[-silent] [-version] [-v]

DESCRIPTION

type1inst is a utility which scans Type 1 PostScript font

files and generates automatically the fonts.scale file which the

X Window System uses to pick up fonts in the current directory

and/or the Fontmap file which Ghostscript uses to map file names

to font names. It can also generate simple font sample sheets

which show what your fonts look like.

type1inst is a Perl script so you will need to have that

installed on your system. The pfbtops utility (which comes as

part of GNU groff) is also required.

ADOBE DPS USERS NOTE

If you are using a commercial Unix system which has a Dis

play PostScript-capable X server (for example Sun Solaris 2.3 or

later) then you should not use type1inst for generating a

fonts.scale file (indeed, such systems do not even use

fonts.scale). The makepsres utility which came with your system

does what you want. You can, however, still use this program

with Ghostscript if you wish.

USAGE

Change directory to the directory where the fonts you wish

to have processed are located. Invoking type1inst will then gen

erate a fonts.scale and a Fontmap. The program also has a number

of options as detailed below.

OPTIONS

-nox Supresses generation/update of the file

fonts.scale which lists the fonts in the current directory for

the benefit of the X Window System. This file is generated or

updated by default.

-nogs Supresses generation/update of the file Fontmap

which lists the fonts in the current directory for the benefit of

Ghostscript. This file is generated or updated by default.

-samples

Creates PostScript files showing the fonts in the

current directory. One file is created for each font in the sub

directory samples as well as one or more files showing the fonts

together.

-nolog Supresses the generation of a log file detailing

what happened during the last run of type1inst. This file is

generated by default.

-quiet Stops type1inst from printing messages on stdout.

Messages will be written to the log file, unless -nolog is also

specified, in which case the program does its work but does not

record anywhere what happened.

-q Same as -quiet.

-silent This has the same effect as -quiet.

-version

Print version information and exit.

-v Same as -version.

NOTES

More detailed information is available in the README file

which is part of the type1inst distribution.

SEE ALSO

X(1), gs(1), pfbtops(1), makepsres(1), perl(1)

AUTHOR

James Macnicol <james.macnicol@mailexcite.com>

COPYRIGHT

type1inst is Copyright (C) 1996-1998 James Macnicol.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it

and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public Li

cense as published by the Free Software Foundation; either ver

sion 2, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be

useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied war

ranty of MERCHANTIBILITY for FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

See the GNU General Public License for more details.

TRADEMARKS

PostScript and Display PostScript are trademarks of Adobe

Systems Incorporated which may be registered in certain jurisdic

tions.

11-Feb-98

Type1inst(1)