ttf2afm(1)
utility to generate AFM files for TrueType fonts
Description
TTF2AFM
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
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-i |
force printing glyph names in form ‘index’decnum | |
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-u |
force printing glyph names in form ‘uni’hexnum | |
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-c name |
write encoding tables to file name.eMN, where M is the platform ID and N is the encoding ID | |
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-v |
print program version | |
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-e enc |
encode AFM output using encoding vector from enc |
-o outfile
output to file outfile instead of standard output
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-m num |
use Unicode mapping num in the font |
Platform numbers can be one of
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0 |
Apple Unicode |
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1 |
Macintosh |
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2 |
ISO |
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3 |
Microsoft |
Encodings can be
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0 |
Roman (if platform is Macintosh) |
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0 |
Symbol (if platform is Microsoft) |
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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.