FONTTOSFNT
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: fonttosfnt 1.0.3
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NAME
fonttosfnt - Wrap a bitmap font in a sfnt (TrueType) wrapper
SYNOPSIS
fonttosfnt
[
options
]
-o
file.ttf
[
--
]
font...
DESCRIPTION
Wrap a bitmap font or a set of bitmap fonts in a sfnt (TrueType or
OpenType) wrapper.
OPTIONS
- -v
-
Be verbose.
- -c
-
Do not crop glyphs. This usually increases file size, but may
sometimes yield a modest decrease in file size for small character
cell fonts (terminal fonts).
- -b
-
Write byte-aligned glyph data. By default, unaligned data is written,
which yields a smaller file size.
- -r
-
Do not reencode fonts. By default, fonts are reencoded to Unicode
whenever possible.
- -g n
-
Set the type of scalable glyphs that we write. If
n
is 0, no scalable glyphs are written; this is legal but confuses
most current software. If
n
is 1, a single scalable glyph (the undefined glyph) is written; this
is recommended, but triggers a bug in current versions of
FreeType.
If
n
is 2 (the default), a sufficiently high number of blank glyphs are
written, which works with
FreeType
but increases file size.
- -m n
-
Set the type of scalable metrics that we write. If
n
is 0, no scalable metrics are written, which may or may not be legal.
If
n
is 1, full metrics for a single glyph are written, and only left
sidebearing values are written for the other glyphs. If
n
is 2, scalable metrics for all glyphs are written, which increases
file size and is not recommended. The default is 1.
- --
-
End of options.
BUGS
Some of the font-level values, notably sub- and superscript positions,
are dummy values.
SEE ALSO
X(7), Xserver(1), Xft(3x).
Fonts in X11.
AUTHOR
The version of
Fonttosfnt
included in this X.Org Foundation release was originally written by
Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@freedesktop.org> for the XFree86 project.