CROPS(1)					     CROPS(1)


NAME
       crops - international support for PostScript


SYNOPSIS
       crops-genmissing   --input	<inputfile>.afm   --group
       <group>


DESCRIPTION
       crops-genmissing should help you to more or less auto
       matically  create  .afm	files which you can later pass as
       --cc option to crops-addfont.

       Basically, you should create a group file  which  contains
       all the missing characters you'd like to see in some font.
       For croatian latin2 encoding,  they  are  cacute,  Cacute,
       ccaron,	Ccaron,  dbar,	Dbar,  scaron, Scaron, zcaron and
       Zcaron (see specifics/latin2_hr ).

       When you invoke crops-genmissing with the font's orig
       inal .afm (--input) and latin2_hr (--group), it will iden
       tify missing characters in the .afm and create the supple
       ment file.  At that point, you use crops-addfont.

       If  you	don't  know how to create the group file (and the
       latin2_hr example wasn't clear enough), you could use some
       generic	"catch	all"  files  from  the	distribution (see
       specifics/ directory), which all have  a  disadvantage  of
       most probably beeing an overkill for your needs.

       I  said	this  is  a more or less automatic procedure: the
       idea is that you create new glyph by combining exactly two
       existing  ones.	 For example, a letter 'D' and a bar give
       you 'Dbar' - capital D overstriked with a bar.

       Now, the width of a new glyph will be the same as the  one
       from  the original (letter 'D' in our case), and the ques
       tion is, what position will element 'bar' have inside 'D'?

       crops-genmissing  tool  can create the missing defini
       tions, but it can't guess the offset for 'bar' in 'D'  (it
       will  put  some	relatively  good value instead). You will
       need to check if new glyph looks fine and eventually fine-
       tune  the  offset  (last  pair of values in the definition
       line).



OPTIONS
       --config, -c <file>
	      Load    config	from	<file>.    Default     is
	      /etc/crops/crops.conf




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CROPS(1)					     CROPS(1)


       --help, -h
	      Print short usage information


       --input, -i <original>.afm
	      Source  .afm file. If you don't have one, check out
	      the tools you can use to produce it.


       --output, -o <name>
	      Output file name. Defaults to <original>-c.afm.


       --group, -g <group>
	      If the filename starts with a '/',  it's	taken  as
	      absolute	filesystem  path;  otherwise  the file is
	      taken from the specifics/ directory. If not  speci
	      fied, defaults to specifics/<original>.


EXAMPLES
       crops-genmissing --input /tmp/amazone.afm -e latin2_hr



NOTES
       If you create new group files, please send them to me  for
       inclusion in future releases.



AUTHORS
       Davor Ocelic <docelic@linux.hr>



SEE ALSO
       ogonki2(1) , ogonki2-addencoding(1) , ogonki2-addfont(1) ,
       defoma(1) , defoma-font(1) , ghostview(1)


















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