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fonttosfnt(1)


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.



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