macOS
brew install mftracelocal Homebrew formula metadata
sudo port install mftraceMacPorts ports tree · graphics/mftrace/Portfile · Quelle: api.github.com
brew
Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für mftrace in AI-Agent-Workflows.
Installation
brew install mftracelocal Homebrew formula metadata
sudo port install mftraceMacPorts ports tree · graphics/mftrace/Portfile · Quelle: api.github.com
sudo apt install mftraceDebian stable package indexes · mftrace · Quelle: deb.debian.org
sudo dnf install mftraceFedora Rawhide package metadata · mftrace · Quelle: dl.fedoraproject.org
nix profile install nixpkgs#mftracenixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/mf/mftrace/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com
sudo zypper install mftraceopenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · mftrace · Quelle: download.opensuse.org
Überblick
Trace TeX bitmap font to PFA, PFB, or TTF font
Verlauf
mftrace grew out of the TeX and METAFONT font toolchain as a Python wrapper for converting TeX bitmap fonts into scalable outlines. The LilyPond-hosted manual describes it as tracing a TeX bitmap font into PFA, PFB, or TTF output, and notes that versions before 1.0.5 were named pktrace. The project documentation and man page identify Han-Wen Nienhuys as the author.
The tool's importance is narrow but durable: it bridges METAFONT-era bitmap fonts and scalable font formats used by PostScript, PDF, and TrueType workflows. Its manual describes the reason for the conversion in package-nerd terms: scalable fonts render across printer resolutions and let Ghostscript generate better PDFs than bitmap-only inputs.
In use, mftrace delegates the heavy lifting to font and tracing utilities such as METAFONT, potrace or autotrace, t1asm, and FontForge-like tooling. That makes it a glue package for TeX distributions, music engraving and document publishing systems, and maintainers converting old METAFONT designs into formats expected by modern font consumers. Its packaging across Homebrew, Debian, Fedora, MacPorts, Nix, Ubuntu, and openSUSE reflects that it is infrastructure for a specialized publishing niche rather than an end-user font editor.
Sicherheitslage
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance
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Executables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
gf2pbm | cli | globales Executable | |
mftrace | cli | globales Executable |
Aktualität
Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.
Installationsmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:mftrace |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.2.20 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Paketmanager-Seite | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/mftrace |
| Homepage | https://lilypond.org/mftrace/ |
| Repository | http://repo.or.cz/w/mftrace.git |
| Upstream-Dokumentation | https://lilypond.org/download/source/mftrace |
| Lizenz | GPL-2.0-only |
| Quellarchiv | https://lilypond.org/downloads/sources/mftrace/mftrace-1.2.20.tar.gz |
| Abhängigkeiten | fontforge, potrace, python@3.14, t1utils |
| Bottle | verfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | nicht definiert |
| Dienst | keiner deklariert |
Registry-Fakten
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | mftrace |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 2 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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Source-Datenbank-Treffer
Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.
mftrace 1.2.20+git20191022.3b4bc2e-3
Converts Metafont fonts into Type1 fonts
https://lilypond.org/mftrace/index.html
sudo apt install mftracemftrace
nix profile install nixpkgs#mftracemftrace 1.2.20+git20191022.3b4bc2e-3
Converts Metafont fonts into Type1 fonts
https://lilypond.org/mftrace/index.html
sudo apt install mftracemftrace 1.2.20-19.fc44
Utility for converting TeX bitmap fonts to Type 1 or TrueType fonts
sudo dnf install mftracemftrace 1.2.20-4.3
Scalable PostScript Fonts for MetaFont
sudo zypper install mftracemftrace
sudo port install mftraceQuellspur
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