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.TH GETAFM 1 "PSUtils Release 1 Patchlevel 17"
.SH NAME
getafm \- create an AFM file for a PostScript font.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B getafm 
.I FontName
>
.I output.ps
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Getafm
generates a PostScript file which prints an AFM file for a font to the
printer's output channel. The output of
.I getafm
should be sent to a printer, or to GhostScript. For example,
.sp
.ce
getafm Times-Roman | gsnd - >Times-Roman.afm
.sp
.SH AUTHOR
Robert Joop (rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de), Angus Duggan

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.SH ATTRIBUTES
See
.BR attributes (5)
for descriptions of the following attributes:
.sp
.TS
box;
cbp-1 | cbp-1
l | l .
ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE 
=
Availability	print/psutils
=
Stability	Volatile
.TE 
.PP
.SH "SEE ALSO"
psbook(1), psselect(1), pstops(1), epsffit(1), psnup(1), psresize(1), psmerge(1), fixscribeps(1), getafm(1), fixdlsrps(1), fixfmps(1), fixmacps(1), fixpsditps(1), fixpspps(1), fixtpps(1), fixwfwps(1), fixwpps(1), fixwwps(1), extractres(1), includeres(1)
.SH TRADEMARKS
.B PostScript
is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
.SH BUGS
Kerning information is not generated by
.I getafm;
it is best to use original AFM files if possible.


.SH NOTES

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This software was built from source available at https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.  The original community source was downloaded from  http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/tex-utils/psutils/psutils-p17.tar.gz

Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at http://knackered.knackered.org/angus/psutils/.