NAME

screenafm − Build screen font metric file from bitmap description files

SYNOPSIS

/usr/bin/screenafm fontname bdffile ... 

DESCRIPTION

screenafm is used to build Adobe Font Metric (AFM) files for the screen-width versions of a particular font.  screenafm is usually executed as part of the font installation procedure for a font.  It takes as input a font metric file for the font as a whole, and a number of standard Adobe Bitmap Description format (BDF) files.  It produces one font metrics file for each BDF file it is given, describing the character widths for that size of that font if screen widths are being used.  The Bitmap Distribution Format files provided as input to screenafm must be given in order from smallest to largest. 

The AFM files output by screenafm should be placed in the AFM directory where the font is being installed. 

For more information about how to create and install fonts, see the document Fonts in NextStep, available from NeXT Technical Services. 

When screenafm is run, it looks for the AFM file for the given font in the current directory, in the directory ../afm, and then in the three standard AFM file directories (see below).  The inclusion of ../afm is often helpful when working in a conventional font source tree. 

SEE ALSO

prebuild(1)

FILES

/NextLibrary/Fonts/{outline,bitmap,afm}location of NeXT-provided fonts
/LocalLibrary/Fonts/{outline,bitmap,afm}location of locally-provided fonts
~/Library/Fonts/{outline,bitmap,afm}location of user-provided fonts

BUGS

screenafm shouldn’t exist at all.  This information could be directly obtained from the output files produced by prebuild. 
 
 

4th Berkeley Distribution  —  June 15, 1989