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ttf2afm

Section: pdfTeX (1)
Updated: September 2000
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NAME

ttf2afm - utility to generate AFM files for TrueType fonts

 

SYNOPSIS

ttf2afm [ OPTION... ] 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 (note that -d and -h are mutually exclusive).

 

OPTIONS

-a
print all glyphs
-i
read names in encoding vector in form `indexnum'
-d
print glyph names in the form `indexdecimal_num'
-h
print glyph names in the form `indexhex_num'
-c name
print encoding tables to file name.eMN, where M is the platform number and N is the encoding
-e enc
use encoding from file enc
-o output
output to file output instead of stdout

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)

 

BUGS

None known, but submit bug reports to <pdftex@tug.org> (mailing list).

 

AUTHOR

ttf2afm is part of pdfTeX and was written by Han The Thanh <thanh@informatics.muni.cz>.

This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly <c@eskimo.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It may be used by other distributions without contacting the author. Any mistakes or omissions in the manual page are my fault; inquiries about or corrections to this manual page should be directed to me (and not to the primary author).


 

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NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
BUGS
AUTHOR

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