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NAME pfbtops – translate Printer Font Binary files to PostScript ASCII SYNOPSIS [pfb-file] –help -v –version DESCRIPTION pfbtops translates a PostScript font in Printer Font Binary (PFB) format to ASCII, splitting overlong lines in text packets into smaller chunks. If pfb-file is omitted, the PFB file will be read from the standard input. The ASCII…
NAME pfbtopfa – Convert Postscript .pfb fonts to .pfa format using ghostscript SYNOPSIS pfbtopfa input.pfb [output.pfa] DESCRIPTION This script invokes gs(1) to convert a .pfb file into a .pfa file. SEE ALSO gs(1) VERSION This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 9.55.0. AUTHOR Artifex Software, Inc. are the primary maintainers of Ghostscript. This manpage…
NAME pfb2t1c – convert from binary PostScript Type1 into compressible .t1c t1c2pfb – convert from compressible .t1c to binary PostScript Type1 SYNOPSIS pfb2t1c "pfb file" t1c2pfb DESCRIPTION pfb2t1c reads a pfb file and converts it into the t1c format. The resulting single file (written to stdout) is not much smaller than the original pfb but…
NAME pfb2pfa – convert a type1 pfb file (binary MSDOS) into a pfa (ASCII) SYNOPSIS pfb2pfa [-v] pfbfile [pfafile] DESCRIPTION Program converts a binary MSDOS representation for a type1 PostScript font into a readable ASCII version. The MSDOS newline (\r) is converted into the UNIX newline (\n). The output is written in a file whose…
NAME pf2afm – Make an AFM file from Postscript (PFB/PFA/PFM) font files using ghostscript SYNOPSIS pf2afm fontfilename DESCRIPTION This script invokes gs(1) to make an AFM file from PFB / PFA and (optionally) PFM files. Output goes to fontfilename.afm, which must not already exist. SEE ALSO gs(1) pf2afm.ps in the Ghostscript lib directory. VERSION This…
NAME pf-localization – MonteCarlo mobile robot localization SYNOPSIS pf-localization config_file.ini DESCRIPTION pf-localization is a command-line application which processes a rawlog and tracks a mobile robot pose from the sequence of odometry and observations. It can also perform global localization. BUGS Please report bugs at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=205280&atid=993006 SEE ALSO The application wiki page at http://babel.isa.uma.es/mrpt/index.php/Applications AUTHORS pf-localization…
NAME perror – display MySQL error message information SYNOPSIS perror [options] errorcode … DESCRIPTION perror displays the error message for MySQL or operating system error codes. Invoke perror like this: shell> perror [options] errorcode … perror attempts to be flexible in understanding its arguments. For example, for the ER_WRONG_VALUE_FOR_VAR error, perror understands any of these…
NAME permview – Viewer for declarative security permission sets inside assemblies. SYNOPSIS permview [options] assembly DESCRIPTION This tools allow to list the declarative security attributes present in an assembly. The security attributes are either found on the assembly level, on the classes and the methods. This tool is useful to diagnose why an assembly won’t…
NAME perlxstypemap – Perl XS C/Perl type mapping DESCRIPTION The more you think about interfacing between two languages, the more you’ll realize that the majority of programmer effort has to go into converting between the data structures that are native to either of the languages involved. This trumps other matter such as differing calling conventions…
NAME perlxstut – Tutorial for writing XSUBs DESCRIPTION This tutorial will educate the reader on the steps involved in creating a Perl extension. The reader is assumed to have access to perlguts, perlapi and perlxs. This tutorial starts with very simple examples and becomes more complex, with each new example adding new features. Certain concepts…
NAME perlxs – XS language reference manual DESCRIPTION Introduction XS is an interface description file format used to create an extension interface between Perl and C code (or a C library) which one wishes to use with Perl. The XS interface is combined with the library to create a new library which can then be…
NAME perlwin32 – Perl under Windows SYNOPSIS These are instructions for building Perl under Windows 2000 and later. DESCRIPTION Before you start, you should glance through the README file found in the top-level directory to which the Perl distribution was extracted. Make sure you read and understand the terms under which this software is being…
NAME perlvos – Perl for Stratus OpenVOS SYNOPSIS This file contains notes for building perl on the Stratus OpenVOS operating system. Perl is a scripting or macro language that is popular on many systems. See perlbook for a number of good books on Perl. These are instructions for building Perl from source. This version of…
NAME perlvms – VMS-specific documentation for Perl DESCRIPTION Gathered below are notes describing details of Perl 5’s behavior on VMS. They are a supplement to the regular Perl 5 documentation, so we have focussed on the ways in which Perl 5 functions differently under VMS than it does under Unix, and on the interactions between…
NAME perlvmesa – building and installing Perl for VM/ESA. SYNOPSIS This document will help you Configure, build, test and install Perl on VM/ESA. DESCRIPTION This is a fully ported perl for VM/ESA 2.3.0. It may work on other versions, but that’s the one we’ve tested it on. If you’ve downloaded the binary distribution, it needs…
NAME perlver – The Perl Minimum Version Analyzer SYNOPSIS adam@red:~$ perlver Perl-MinimumVersion Found directory ‘.’ Searching for Perl files… found 3 file(s) Scanning lib/Perl/MinimumVersion.pm… done Scanning t/01_compile.t… done Scanning t/02_main.t… done ——————————————————— | file | explicit | syntax | external | | ——————————————————— | | lib/Perl/MinimumVersion.pm | 5.005 | ~ | n/a | | t/01_compile.t…
NAME perlvar – Perl predefined variables DESCRIPTION The Syntax of Variable Names Variable names in Perl can have several formats. Usually, they must begin with a letter or underscore, in which case they can be arbitrarily long (up to an internal limit of 251 characters) and may contain letters, digits, underscores, or the special sequence…
NAME perluts – Perl under UTS SYNOPSIS This document can be read as is: as README.uts, or you can read it after you build your package using “man perluts”. The purpose is to help you build Perl for UTS, which, if you follow these instructions, should be easy, and result in a solidly working installation….
NAME perlutil – utilities packaged with the Perl distribution DESCRIPTION Along with the Perl interpreter itself, the Perl distribution installs a range of utilities on your system. There are also several utilities which are used by the Perl distribution itself as part of the install process. This document exists to list all of these utilities,…
NAME perlunitut – Perl Unicode Tutorial DESCRIPTION The days of just flinging strings around are over. It’s well established that modern programs need to be capable of communicating funny accented letters, and things like euro symbols. This means that programmers need new habits. It’s easy to program Unicode capable software, but it does require discipline…