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This includes some tools that are in FreeType 1's contrib directory. ttf2pfb: Converting TrueType fonts to the Postscript Type 1 format. ttf2pk: A simple conversion tool to bring TrueType quality to the TeX world. ttf2bdf: Produce bitmapped fonts from TrueType files for your X11 applications. ttfbanner: make posters using a TrueType font

The library "libotf" provides the following facilites: o Read Open Type Layout Tables from OTF file. Currently these tables are supported; head, name, cmap, GDEF, GSUB, and GPOS. o Convert a Unicode character sequence to a glyph code sequence by using the above tables. The combination of libotf and the FreeType library (Ver. 2) realizes CTL (complex text layout) by OpenType fonts.

Mpage is a program to reduce and print multiple pages of text per sheet on a PostScript compatible printer. It also has limited functionality to do the same with postscript files itself. Mpage and all the files distributed with mpage are covered by copyright: Copyright (c) 1994-1997 Marcel J.E. Mol, The Netherlands Copyright (c) 1988 Mark P. Hahn, Herndon, Virginia

This package contains implentations of the Free Standards Group (FSG) Open Printing API (PAPI) (v1.0) and client software that uses it. The implemenations of the API are designed so that they can be used individually to support client application interaction with a particular type of print service or together to interact with a variety of different print service types.

"Pcal" is a program to print PostScript calendars for any month and year. By default, it looks for a file in the home directory named "calendar" for entries with leading dates matching dates on the calendar, and prints any following text under the appropriate day.

pkipplib is a Python library which can prepare IPP requests with the help of a somewhat high level API. These requests can then be sent to an IPP printer or print server (e.g. CUPS). This library can also parse IPP answers received, and create high level Python objects from them.

PyPdf isaA Pure-Python library built as a PDF toolkit. It is capable of: - extracting document information (title, author, ...), - splitting documents page by page, - merging documents page by page, - cropping pages, - merging multiple pages into a single page, - encrypting and decrypting PDF files.

PDF::Core is a pure Ruby library to render PDF documents. It supports several PDF features, such as among others: * low-level annotation * istream objects and stream filters * NameTree * object repository * object serialization * indirect objects * page geometries It is used internally by Prawn (provided in the rubygems-prawn package), a Ruby PDF generation library.

ptexenc is a useful library for Japanese pTeX (which stands for publishing TeX, and is an extension of TeX by ASCII Co.) and its surrounding tools. ptexenc provides a better way of handling character encodings. ptexenc is not an official product of ASCII Co., so pTeX and other tools need some patches to make use of it. Some patches are included within this archive.

Xdvik is a program for displaying DVI files (generated e.g. by Troff or TeX) on the X window system. It is based on the regular (non-k) xdvi of the same version number. This package includes pTeX support. A fontmap file for xdvi is installed as TEXMFDIST/fonts/map/xdvi/xdvi-ptex.map.