Idris, In order to get a regular afm via this tool, you need a more complicated syntax, see the man page below. And to make this for a number of files, you'll need a real shell (with a for ... do syntax). If you can run something like zsh on your box, I'll tell you how tomorrow. Best Thomas GETAFM(1) GETAFM(1) NAME getafm - create an AFM file for a PostScript font. SYNOPSIS getafm FontName > output.ps DESCRIPTION Getafm generates a PostScript file which prints an AFM file for a font to the printer's output channel. The output of getafm should be sent to a printer, or to GhostScript. For example, getafm Times-Roman | gsnd - >Times-Roman.afm AUTHOR Robert Joop (rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de), Angus Duggan SEE ALSO psbook(1), psselect(1), pstops(1), epsffit(1), psnup(1), psresize(1), psmerge(1), fixscribeps(1), getafm(1), fixdlsrps(1), fixfmps(1), fix- macps(1), fixpsditps(1), fixpspps(1), fixtpps(1), fixwfwps(1), fixw- pps(1), fixwwps(1), extractres(1), includeres(1) TRADEMARKS PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. BUGS Kerning information is not generated by getafm; it is best to use orig- inal AFM files if possible. PSUtils Release 1 Patchlevel 17 GETAFM(1) On Apr 5, 2005, at 11:46 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

Dear gang,

I found a TeXLive utility, getafm, that generates an afm file from a pfb file. I need to generate a large number of afms, but I'm having difficulty getting this utility to work:

getafm > <myfont>.afm

works fine, but

getafm *.pfb > *.afm

does not. There does not appear to be any help info for getafm either;

getafm -h[--help] actually generates an on-screen afm listing(?)

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can do this?

Thnx in advance Idris

============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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