UFOND

NAME

ufond - convert UNIX font files into Macintosh format

SYNOPSIS

ufond [-dfont] [-macbin] [-res] [-script name] fontfile...

DESCRIPTION

The program ufond takes UNIX font files, wraps them in a Macintosh resource fork, creates a family for them, and then wraps that in a macbinary or binhex file.

The program reads one or more font files, specified at the end of the command line, using any of the following formats:
Glyph Bitmap Distribution (.bdf)
TrueType (.ttf)
OpenType (.otf)
P OST S CRIPT Binary format (.pfb)

All fonts with the same font family name will be placed in the same FOND. The program associates the name of a P OST S CRIPT font with a bitmap font, as well as handling bold, italic, and other variants properly.

The generated Macintosh files will be in one of three formats:
MacBinary (default)
dfont (data fork resource file format, used by MacOS X)
bare resource fork (you have to know how to transform this into a real
resource fork)

The program normally assumes that your fonts are in the roman script system. If this is not true you may specify a script directly. The program knows the names of a few scripts (greek, cyrillic, hebrew, arabic) which may be entered directly; otherwise you must know the Macintosh script number.

OPTIONS

-dfont

Generate Macintosh files in dfont format.

-macbin

Generate Macintosh files in MacBinary format.

-res

Generate Macintosh files in resource format.

-script name

Specify the Macintosh script number.

AUTHOR

George Williams (gww@silcom.com).

Manual page by Ziying Sherwin (sherwin@nlm.nih.gov) and R.P.C Rodgers (rodgers@nlm.nih.gov), Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, U.S. National Library of Medicine.