NAME
ttf2afm - generate afm files for TrueType fonts for a given encoding
SYNOPSIS
ttf2afm [options] ttf-file
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
FontForge (https://fontforge.org),
LCDF TypeTools (https://lcdf.org).
A closer look at TrueType fonts and pdfTeX, Hàn The Thành, https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb30-1/tb94thanh.pdf
AUTHOR
ttf2afm is part of pdfTeX and was written by Hàn The Thành.
This manual page was originally written by C.M. Connelly, for the Debian GNU/Linux system, and updated by Karl Berry and others.
Public discussion list for ttf2afm: https://lists.tug.org/pdftex