ttf2afm - utility to generate AFM files for TrueType fonts

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  OPTIONS  SEE ALSO  BUGS  AUTHOR 

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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 <[email protected]> (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.

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