TTF2AFM(1) | General Commands Manual | TTF2AFM(1) |
NAME¶
ttf2afm - utility to generate AFM files for TrueType fonts
SYNOPSIS¶
ttf2afm [OPTIONS] FONTFILE
DESCRIPTION¶
ttf2afm is used to generate Adobe Font Metrics (AFM) files for TrueType (TTF) fonts to allow them to be used with TeX.
ttf2afm takes the name of a TrueType font file as a required argument. It may also take one or more options from the list below (-i and -u are mutually exclusive).
OPTIONS¶
- -i
- force printing glyph names in form `index'decnum
- -u
- force printing glyph names in form `uni'hexnum
- -c name
- write encoding tables to file name.eMN, where M is the platform ID and N is the encoding ID
- -v
- print program version
- -e enc
- encode AFM output using encoding vector from enc
- -o outfile
- output to file outfile instead of standard output
- -m num
- use Unicode mapping num in the font
Platform numbers can be one of
- 0
- Apple Unicode
- 1
- Macintosh
- 2
- ISO
- 3
- Microsoft
Encodings can be
- 0
- Roman (if platform is Macintosh)
- 0
- Symbol (if platform is Microsoft)
- 1
- Unicode (if platform is Microsoft)
SEE ALSO¶
afm2tfm(1), afm2pl(1). FontForge (https://fontforge.org). LCDF TypeTools (https://lcdf.org). A closer look at TrueType fonts and pdfTeX, Han The Thanh (https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb30-1/tb94thanh.pdf).
BUGS¶
Send bug reports to <pdftex@tug.org> (public mailing list).
AUTHOR¶
ttf2afm is part of pdfTeX and was written by Han The Thanh.
This manual page was originally written by C.M. Connelly, for the Debian GNU/Linux system, and updated by Karl Berry and others.
8 March 2022 | Web2C 2024 |