# mftrace mit Homebrew, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, zypper installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für mftrace in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:mftrace
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install mftrace
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install mftrace
```

  Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: graphics/mftrace/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install mftrace
```

  Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: mftrace from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install mftrace
```

  Evidenz: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mftrace from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#mftrace
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mf/mftrace/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install mftrace
```

  Evidenz: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: mftrace from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:mftrace
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.2.20
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Trace TeX bitmap font to PFA, PFB, or TTF font
- **Homepage:** <https://lilypond.org/mftrace/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/hanwen/mftrace>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- gf2pbm (Alias)
- mftrace (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 1.2.20
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

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.

### Projektgeschichte

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.

### Wie es verwendet wird

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.

### Quellen

- <https://ctan.org/pkg/mftrace?lang=en>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/mftrace>
- <https://github.com/hanwen/mftrace>
- <https://github.com/hanwen/mftrace/blob/master/mftrace.1>
- <https://lilypond.org/mftrace/>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - mftrace - 1.2.20+git20191022.3b4bc2e-3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: mftrace from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Converts Metafont fonts into Type1 fonts | https://lilypond.org/mftrace/index.html
- Nix - mftrace: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mf/mftrace/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - mftrace - 1.2.20+git20191022.3b4bc2e-3: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: mftrace from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Converts Metafont fonts into Type1 fonts | https://lilypond.org/mftrace/index.html
- dnf - mftrace - 1.2.20-20.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mftrace from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Utility for converting TeX bitmap fonts to Type 1 or TrueType fonts | http://lilypond.org/mftrace/
- zypper - mftrace - 1.2.20-4.5: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: mftrace from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Scalable PostScript Fonts for MetaFont | https://lilypond.org/mftrace/
- MacPorts - mftrace: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: graphics/mftrace/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/mftrace.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/mftrace.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph