NAME
ttfdump - Dumping the contents of a TrueType Font file
SYNOPSIS
ttfdump [-h] [-t tablename] [-g glyphnumber] [-c collection] [-o dumpfile] [-i] ttfile
DESCRIPTION
ttfdump dumps the contents of a TrueType font file in ASCII form. A TrueType font file is consist of various tables. Those table are divided into two categories - Required Tables and Optional Tables. Mulitiple TrueType fonts can be merged to a TrueType Collection.
Options
- -h
-
Print a help message on standard output and exit.
- -t tablename
-
If this option is specified then dump the table "tablename", otherwise dump every tables in ttfile. Tablename can be one of the following:
- Required Tables
- cmap
-
character to glyph mapping table
- glyf
-
glyph data
- head
-
font header
- hhea
-
horizontal header
- hmtx
-
horizontal metrics
- loca
-
index to location
- maxp
-
maximum profile
- name
-
naming table
- post
-
PostScript information
- OS/2
-
OS/2 and windows specific metrics
- Optional Tables
- cvt
-
control value table
- fpgm
-
font program; not implemented yet.
- gasp
-
grid-fitting and scan conversion procedure (grayscale)
- hdmx
-
horizontal device metrics
- kern
-
kerning table
- LTSH
-
Linear threshold table
- prep
-
CVT program; not implemented yet
- PCLT
-
PCL5 table
- VDMX
-
Vertical Device Metrics table
- vhea
-
vertical metrics header
- vmtx
-
vertical metrics
- Additional OpenType Tables
- GPOS
-
glyph positioning table
- GSUB
-
glyph substitution table
- -g glyphnumber
-
If this option is specified then dump the glyph with index glyphnumber, otherwise dump all glyphs in ttfile.
- -c collection
-
Select a TrueType font in a TrueType Collection.
- -o dumpfile
-
Output of the dump. If this option is not specified, dump to stdout.
- -i ttfile
-
TrueType font file to be dumped.
EXAMPLE
To dump all information in the TrueType font file times.ttf:
ttfdump times.ttf
To dump the required table cmap in the file:
ttfdump -t cmap times.ttf
To dump a single glyph with index 50:
ttfdump -g 50 times.ttf
SEE ALSO
TrueType 1.0 Font Files, Technical Specification Revision 1.66 November 1995
NOTE
Instruction disassembler in not implemented.
AUTHOR
Li-Da Lho
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