defoma-hints

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Updated: March 4, 2001
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NAME

defoma-hints - generate font hints.

SYNOPSIS

defoma-hints [-c] category fonts...

DESCRIPTION

defoma-hints is a tool to help generating font hints. It asks various questions about the typeface of a font, reads information from a font file, and outputs the generated hints to STDOUT in a hintfile format.

FILES

/usr/share/defoma/libhint-*.pl: Perl libraries which are prepared for each category. These are category-specific hints-generating program.

EXAMPLES

1. Create a hintfile named type1.hints for type1 fonts in /usr/share/fonts/type1.

defoma-hints type1 /usr/share/fonts/type1/*.pfb > type1.hints

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