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font2afm - create font metrics (in afm format) for (almost) any font file

font2afm [options] font ...

font2afm [options] @filelist

font2afm generates font metrics (in Adobe's afm format) for Type1, TrueType and OpenType fonts.

font2afm is just a wrapper script around several utilities (cfftot1, pf2afm, ttf2afm, pfm2kpx and ot2kpx) that do the real work. All these utilities need to be available on your system.

-f 4 Force overwriting of existing afm files.

font 4 This can be any Type1 (in either pfa or pfb format), TrueType or OpenType (both PostScript- and TrueType-flavored) font.

filelist 4 This should contain a newline-separated list of font filenames.

pf2afm (part of GhostScript), ttf2afm (part of pdfTeX), afm2afm, autoinst, cmap2enc, ot2kpx, pfm2kpx, cfftot1 (part of Eddie Kohler's LCDF TypeTools).

Marc Penninga <>

2005-04-15 12 First version

2005-04-29 12 Improved the documentation

2005-05-23 12 Bugfix.

2005-07-29 12 Added support for PostScript-flavored (otf) OpenType fonts.

2005-08-08 12 Bugfix.