---
name: "ttf2afm"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "texlive-doc"
version: "2026.1-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/ttf2afm"
---

# ttf2afm(1)

generate afm files for TrueType fonts for a given encoding

## 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

[afm2tfm(1)](/afm2tfm/1.md), [afm2pl(1)](/afm2pl/1.md).

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