1FONTDATABASE(5)               File Formats Manual              FONTDATABASE(5)
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NAME

6       FontDataBase - database of fonts accessible to t1lib.
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DESCRIPTION

9       This  manual  page  has been written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribu‐
10       tion.  It has been adapted  from  the  documentation  included  in  the
11       upstream t1lib distribution.
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13       /etc/t1lib/FontDataBase  is  a text file which contains, minimally, the
14       basenames of Type 1 font files to be made accessible to the t1lib  font
15       rasterizer library.  The format is intentionally similar to that of the
16       fonts.dir and fonts.scale files used by X11.
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18       Line 1 of this file contains a positive integer specifying  the  number
19       of  fonts  declared  in that file. This is as in the fonts.dir files of
20       the X11 system.
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22       All remaining lines contain declarations of one  font  each.  The  only
23       thing  taken  from  such  a line is the last string (delimited by white
24       space) in it. It is assumed to  be  a  filename  of  the  format  base‐
25       name.someextension.
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27       The  basename  part  is  assumed  to  be the basename(1) of a fontfile.
28       After the a string has been  parsed,  the  extension  is  cut  off  and
29       replaced  in turn with .pfa and .pfb.  The initialization routine tries
30       to open a font file in its search path with one of the resulting  file‐
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33       The  remainder  of  the  line, i.e., from beginning to the start of the
34       filename string, is completely ignored and thus may contain information
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EXAMPLES

38       Here is a minimal font database file for 4 fonts:
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41       isvl.afm
42       isvli.afm
43       isvd.afm
44       isvdi.afm
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46       This  file is minimal, because it contains just the information needed,
47       and nothing not needed by the library.
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49       Here is a more realistic example, which allows an application to  match
50       a  fully  qualified  X11 fontname to a FontID in t1lib.  This is also a
51       valid font database file:
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54       Souvenir Souvenir-Light       --- -itc-souvenir-light-r-normal--#-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 isvl.afm
55       Souvenir Souvenir-LightItalic -*- -itc-souvenir-light-i-normal--#-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 isvli.afm
56                 Souvenir-Demi       *-- -itc-souvenir-demi-r-normal--#-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 isvd.afm
57                 Souvenir-DemiItalic **- -itc-souvenir-demi-i-normal--#-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 isvdi.afm
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FILES

60       /etc/t1lib/FontDataBase
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SEE ALSO

63       mkfontdir(1x)
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