$Id: README,v 1.2 92/06/23 11:05:47 ilh Exp $

t1utils is a collection of simple type-1 font manipulation programs.
Together, they allow you to convert between PFA (ASCII) and PFB
(binary) formats, disassemble PFA or PFB files into human-readable
form, reassemble them into PFA or PFB format.  Additionally you can
extract font resources from a Macintosh font file (ATM/Laserwriter).

There are currently five programs:

t1ascii		converts PFB files to PFA format.

t1binary	converts PFA files to PFB format.

t1disasm	disassembles a type-1 font (PFA or PFB format) into a
		raw, human-readable text form for subsequent hand
		editing, tweaking, hint fixing, etc...

t1asm		assembles type-1 font into PFA or PFB format from raw,
		human-readable text form.

unpost		extracts POST resources from a Macintosh type-1 file
		(ATM/Laserwriter) into PFA or PFB format for use
		outside the Macintosh environment.  The Macintosh file
		should be stored in MacBinary format or as a raw
		resource fork.  Note that unpost does not have to run
		on a Macintosh, but makes Macintosh type-1 fonts
		available to Unix machines and PCs.

These programs have been successfully compiled on a Sun 4 (SPARC)
using both acc and gcc.  The programs are written in ANSI C.  Porting
to other machines should be relatively simple.  Would you like to
help?

Thanks to Kai-Uwe Herbing (herbing@netmbx.netmbx.de) for the MS-DOS
port (Microsoft C/C++ compiler).

The copyright on all of the tools in t1utils looks like:

	Copyright (c) 1992 by I. Lee Hetherington, all rights
	reserved.
	
	Permission is hereby granted to use, modify, and distribute
	this program for any purpose provided this copyright notice
	and the one below remain intact.

Note that these tools should not be used to illegally copy type-1 font
programs.  Typeface design is an intricate art that should be
rewarded.

The version numbers in this release are:
	t1ascii		1.2		t1binary	1.2
	t1disasm	1.4		t1asm		1.4
	unpost		1.2


I. Lee Hetherington
ilh@lcs.mit.edu

