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Font utilities available elsewhere
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  The Web2c complement of font utilities merely implements a few basic
conversions.  Many other more sophisticated font utilities exist; most
are in `CTAN:/fonts/utilities' (for CTAN info, *note unixtex.ftp:
(kpathsea)unixtex.ftp.).  Here are some of the most commonly-requested
items:

   * AFM (Adobe font metric) to TFM conversion: *note Invoking afm2tfm:
     (dvips)Invoking afm2tfm., and `CTAN:/fonts/utilities/afmtopl'.

   * BDF (the X bitmap format) conversion:
     <ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/bdf.tar.gz>.

   * Editing of bitmap fonts: Xbfe from the GNU font utilities mentioned
     below; the X BDF-editing programs available from
     <ftp://ftp.x.org/R5contrib/xfed.tar.Z> and
     <ftp://ftp.x.org/R5contrib/xfedor.tar.Z>; and finally, if your
     fonts have only 128 characters, you can use the old `gftopxl',
     `pxtoch', and `chtopx' programs from <ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/web>.

   * PK bitmaps from PostScript fonts: gsftopk from the `xdvik'
     distribution or from `CTAN:/fonts/utilities/gsftopk';
     alternatively, `ps2pk', from `CTAN:/fonts/utilities/ps2pk'.

   * PostScript Type 1 font format conversion (i.e., between PFA and PFB
     formats): <ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/t1utils.tar.gz>.

   * Scanned image conversion: the (aging) GNU font utilities convert
     type specimen images to Metafont, PostScript, etc.:
     <ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/fontutils-0.6.tar.gz>.

   * Virtual font creation: `CTAN:/fonts/utilities/fontinst'.