Anyone know of pfa2pfb.pl?

dbae has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Does anyone know how I can get a copy of pfa2pfb.pl? This is a perl program for translating a font with suffix pfa to a font with suffix pfb. I'm not sure what these suffixes mean, but the "a" in pfa seems to stand for ascii and the "b" in pfb for binary. Mathematica provides .pfa fonts. But dvips, the program associated with TeX, wants .pfb fonts. Apologies if this is not the right place to ask such a question. Thanks for any help. David Epstein

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Re: Anyone know of pfa2pfb.pl? by almut (Canon) on Feb 17, 2009 at 01:24 UTC
Not Perl, but you could use `t1binary` from the good ol' t1utils package.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Anyone know of pfa2pfb.pl? by Anonymous Monk on Feb 17, 2009 at 02:08 UTC
Search for it? http://sourceforge.net/projects/textrace/	[reply]
Re: Anyone know of pfa2pfb.pl? by poolpi (Hermit) on Feb 17, 2009 at 09:08 UTC
See font2pfa/font2pfb tools offered with the PostScript-Font-1.10 module. font2pfa/font2pfb - decodes/encodes binary or ASCII encoded PostScript fonts hth, PooLpi 'Ebry haffa hoe hab im tik a bush'. Jamaican proverb	[reply] [d/l]