FONTDATABASE(5)                                                                                                  FONTDATABASE(5)



NAME
       FontDataBase - database of fonts accessible to t1lib.

DESCRIPTION
       This  manual  page  has  been  written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution.  It has been adapted from the documentation
       included in the upstream t1lib distribution.

       /etc/t1lib/FontDataBase is a text file which contains, minimally, the basenames of Type 1 font files to be made  accessi-
       ble  to  the t1lib font rasterizer library.  The format is intentionally similar to that of the fonts.dir and fonts.scale
       files used by X11.

       Line 1 of this file contains a positive integer specifying the number of fonts declared in that file. This is as  in  the
       fonts.dir files of the X11 system.

       All  remaining  lines  contain  declarations  of  one font each. The only thing taken from such a line is the last string
       (delimited by white space) in it. It is assumed to be a filename of the format basename.someextension.

       The basename part is assumed to be the basename(1) of a fontfile.  After the a string has been parsed, the  extension  is
       cut off and replaced in turn with .pfa and .pfb.  The initialization routine tries to open a font file in its search path
       with one of the resulting filenames.

       The remainder of the line, i.e., from beginning to the start of the filename string, is completely ignored and  thus  may
       contain information for other programs.

EXAMPLES
       Here is a minimal font database file for 4 fonts:

       4
       isvl.afm
       isvli.afm
       isvd.afm
       isvdi.afm

       This file is minimal, because it contains just the information needed, and nothing not needed by the library.

       Here  is  a  more  realistic  example, which allows an application to match a fully qualified X11 fontname to a FontID in
       t1lib.  This is also a valid font database file:

       4
       Souvenir Souvenir-Light       --- -itc-souvenir-light-r-normal--#-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 isvl.afm
       Souvenir Souvenir-LightItalic -*- -itc-souvenir-light-i-normal--#-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 isvli.afm
                 Souvenir-Demi       *-- -itc-souvenir-demi-r-normal--#-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 isvd.afm
                 Souvenir-DemiItalic **- -itc-souvenir-demi-i-normal--#-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 isvdi.afm

FILES
       /etc/t1lib/FontDataBase

SEE ALSO
       mkfontdir(1x)




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