printafm
Display Adobe Font Metrics information
TLDR
Display AFM font metrics
$ printafm [font.afm]
Show specific font info$ printafm [Times-Roman]
SYNOPSIS
printafm [font]
DESCRIPTION
printafm displays detailed metrics from Adobe Font Metrics (AFM) files, including character widths, bounding boxes, kerning pairs, and other typographic properties. AFM files accompany PostScript Type 1 fonts and describe their dimensions for use in page layout and typesetting.This Ghostscript utility is useful for inspecting font properties when debugging PostScript or PDF rendering, or when developing applications that need to calculate text dimensions for layout purposes.
PARAMETERS
FONT
AFM font file or name.
INSTALL
sudo apt install ghostscript
sudo dnf install ghostscript
sudo pacman -S ghostscript
sudo apk add ghostscript
sudo zypper install ghostscript
brew install ghostscript
nix profile install nixpkgs#ghostscript
CAVEATS
Requires AFM files. Part of Ghostscript suite.
HISTORY
printafm is part of Ghostscript for font metrics display.
