ttf2afm - Man Page
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
- -i
force printing glyph names in form `index'decnum
- -u
force printing glyph names in form `uni'hexnum
- -c name
write encoding tables to file name.eMN, where M is the platform ID and N is the encoding ID
- -v
print program version
- -e enc
encode AFM output using encoding vector from enc
- -o outfile
output to file outfile instead of standard output
- -m num
use Unicode mapping num in the font
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)
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.