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fontutils - Converts between font formats and creates fonts

Includes the programs bpltobzr, bzrto, charspace, fontconvert, gsrenderfont, imageto, limn, and xbfe. These create fonts for use with Ghostscript and TeX (starting with a scanned type image and converting the bitmaps to outlines), convert between font formats, etc. The package also includes the lib libbzr.a, libgf.a, libpbm.a, libtfm.a, and libwidgets.a.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.gnu.org/software/fontutils/fontutils.html
Source tarballhttp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/fontutils/fontutils-0.7.tar.gz
Version 0.7 (stable) released on 2000-04-11
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.
This is a GNU package.

Documentation
User manual included
Support contacts

Announce Listinfo-gnu@gnu.org
Help List<bug-utils@gnu.org>
Bug List<bug-utils@gnu.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
Contributors
  • Richard Murphey
  • Erik Wallin

Related information

Interfaceslibrary, command line, X Window System
Programsbpltobzr, bzrto, charspace, fontconvert, gsrenderfont, imageto, limn, and xbfe, libbzr.a, libgf.a, libpbm.a, libtfm.a, and libwidgets.a.
Source languagesGNU C
Build prerequisitesmake
Weak prerequisitesX11 server, X11R4 or R5 libraries (for programs which do online graphics)
Related programsGNU ghostscript

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-01-31
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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