Type1inst(t)                                         Type1inst(t)



NAME
       type1inst  -  Type  1 PostScript font installation utility
       for the X Window System and Ghostscript

VERSION
       0.6.1 (February 11 1998)

SYNOPSIS
       type1inst [-nox] [-nogs] [-samples] [-nolog] [-q] [-quiet]
       [-silent] [-version] [-v]

DESCRIPTION
       type1inst  is a utility which scans Type 1 PostScript font
       files and generates  automatically  the  fonts.scale  file
       which  the  X  Window  System uses to pick up fonts in the
       current  directory   and/or   the   Fontmap   file   which
       Ghostscript  uses to map file names to font names.  It can
       also generate simple font sample sheets  which  show  what
       your fonts look like.

       type1inst  is  a Perl script so you will need to have that
       installed on your  system.   The  pfbtops  utility  (which
       comes as part of GNU groff) is also required.

ADOBE DPS USERS NOTE
       If you are using a commercial Unix system which has a Dis-
       play PostScript-capable X server (for example Sun  Solaris
       2.3 or later) then you should not use type1inst for gener-
       ating a fonts.scale file (indeed, such systems do not even
       use  fonts.scale).   The makepsres utility which came with
       your system does what you want.  You can,  however,  still
       use this program with Ghostscript if you wish.

USAGE
       Change directory to the directory where the fonts you wish
       to have processed are located.   Invoking  type1inst  will
       then  generate  a  fonts.scale and a Fontmap.  The program
       also has a number of options as detailed below.

OPTIONS
       -nox    Supresses   generation/update    of    the    file
               fonts.scale  which  lists the fonts in the current
               directory for the benefit of the X Window  System.
               This file is generated or updated by default.

       -nogs   Supresses  generation/update  of  the file Fontmap
               which lists the fonts in the current directory for
               the  benefit  of Ghostscript.  This file is gener-
               ated or updated by default.

       -samples
               Creates PostScript files showing the fonts in  the
               current  directory.   One file is created for each
               font in the subdirectory samples as well as one or
               more files showing the fonts together.

       -nolog  Supresses  the  generation of a log file detailing
               what happened during the last  run  of  type1inst.
               This file is generated by default.

       -quiet  Stops  type1inst from printing messages on stdout.
               Messages will be written to the log  file,  unless
               -nolog  is  also specified, in which case the pro-
               gram does its work but does  not  record  anywhere
               what happened.

       -q      Same as -quiet.

       -silent This has the same effect as -quiet.

       -version
               Print version information and exit.

       -v      Same as -version.

NOTES
       More  detailed information is available in the README file
       which is part of the type1inst distribution.

SEE ALSO
       X(X), gs(s), pfbtops(s), makepsres(s), perl(l)

AUTHOR
       James Macnicol <james.macnicol@mailexcite.com>

COPYRIGHT
       type1inst is Copyright (C) 1996-1998 James Macnicol.

       This program is free software;  you  can  redistribute  it
       and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
       License as published  by  the  Free  Software  Foundation;
       either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

       This  program  is  distributed in the hope that it will be
       useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
       warranty  of  MERCHANTIBILITY for FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
       PURPOSE.  See the GNU  General  Public  License  for  more
       details.

TRADEMARKS
       PostScript  and Display PostScript are trademarks of Adobe
       Systems Incorporated which may be  registered  in  certain
       jurisdictions.



                            11-Feb-98                Type1inst(t)