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.
CAVEATS
Requires AFM files. Part of Ghostscript suite.
HISTORY
printafm is part of Ghostscript for font metrics display.