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Font info and metrics modules
Johan Vromans' free Perl modules for working with type 1 fonts. - PostScript::Resources -- a module that fetches PostScript font related information from Unix PostScript Resource (.UPR) files.
- PostScript::Font -- a module that returns info about PostScript font files (.PFB and .PFA files); TrueType fonts are handled using an external tool (see below).
Info includes: font name, type, version, but also encoding vector and list of all glyphs. - PostScript::FontMetrics -- a module that analyses Adobe Font Metrics (.AFM) files;
Info includes: font name, type, version, encoding vector and width, bounding box and kerning tables. - PostScript::PrinterMetrics -- a module that analyses Windows printer metrics (.PFM) files.
- PostScript::TTFtoType42 -- a module that analyses TrueType fonts and wraps them in PostScript Type42 format.
- PostScript::FontInfo -- a module that analyses Microsoft FontInfo (.INF) files;
- fontsampler -- a tool to print sample pages of PostScript fonts.
- font2pfa -- a tool to convert a font (.PFB file) to ASCII encoded format (.PFA file).
- font2pfa -- and vice versa.
- fontsampler makes sample pages of PostScript fonts.
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EXTERNAL LINKS
Font info and metrics modules
MyFonts search
Monotype search
Fontspring search
Google search
INTERNAL LINKS
Dog drawn by Ralph Steadman ⦿
Type 1 font software ⦿
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