---
name: "ufond"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "fondu"
version: "0.0.20060102-7"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/ufond"
---

# ufond(1)

convert UNIX font files into Macintosh format

## NAME

ufond -  convert UNIX font files into Macintosh format

## SYNOPSIS

**ufond** \[**-dfont**\] \[**-macbin**\] \[**-res**\] \[**-script** *name*\] **fontfile**...

## DESCRIPTION

The program **ufond** takes UNIX font files, wraps them in a Macintosh resource fork, creates a family for them, and then wraps that in a macbinary or binhex file.

The program reads one or more font files, specified at the end of the command line,  using any of the following formats:

- Glyph Bitmap Distribution (.bdf)

  - TrueType (.ttf)

  - OpenType (.otf)

  - POSTSCRIPT Binary format (.pfb)

  All fonts with the same font family name will be placed in the same FOND.  The program associates the name of a POSTSCRIPT font with a bitmap font,  as well as handling bold, italic, and other variants properly.

The generated Macintosh files will be in one of three formats:

- MacBinary (default)

  - dfont (data fork resource file format, used by MacOS X)

  - bare resource fork (you have to know how to transform this into a real resource fork)

  The program normally assumes that your fonts are in the roman script system.  If this is not true you may specify a script directly.  The program knows the names of a few scripts (greek, cyrillic, hebrew, arabic)  which may be entered directly; otherwise you must know the Macintosh script number.

## OPTIONS

- **-dfont**

  Generate Macintosh files in dfont format.

- **-macbin**

  Generate Macintosh files in MacBinary format.

- **-res**

  Generate Macintosh files in resource format.

- **-script** *name*

  Specify the Macintosh script number.

## AUTHOR

George Williams (gww@silcom.com).

Manual page by Ziying Sherwin (sherwin@nlm.nih.gov) and R.P.C Rodgers (rodgers@nlm.nih.gov), Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, U.S. National Library of Medicine.