1TTX(1) BSD General Commands Manual TTX(1)
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4 ttx — tool for manipulating TrueType and OpenType fonts
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7 ttx [option ...] file ...
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10 ttx is a tool for manipulating TrueType and OpenType fonts. It can con‐
11 vert TrueType and OpenType fonts to and from an XML-based format called
12 TTX. TTX files have a ‘.ttx’ extension.
13 For each file argument it is given, ttx detects whether it is a ‘.ttf’,
15 ‘.otf’ or ‘.ttx’ file and acts accordingly: if it is a ‘.ttf’ or ‘.otf’
16 file, it generates a ‘.ttx’ file; if it is a ‘.ttx’ file, it generates a
17 ‘.ttf’ or ‘.otf’ file.
18 By default, every output file is created in the same directory as the
20 corresponding input file and with the same name except for the extension,
21 which is substituted appropriately. ttx never overwrites existing files;
22 if neccesary, it appends a suffix to the output file name before the
23 extension, as in Arial#1.ttf.
24 General options
26 -h Display usage information.
27 -d dir Write the output files to directory dir instead of writing
29 every output file to the same directory as the corresponding
30 input file.
31 -v Be verbose. Write more messages to the standard output
33 describing what is being done.
34 -a Allow virtual glyphs ID's on compile or decompile.
36 Dump options
38 The following options control the process of dumping font files (TrueType
39 or OpenType) to TTX files.
40 -l List table information. Instead of dumping the font to a TTX
42 file, display minimal information about each table.
43 -t table Dump table table. This option may be given multiple times to
45 dump several tables at once. When not specified, all tables
46 are dumped.
47 -x table Exclude table table from the list of tables to dump. This
49 option may be given multiple times to exclude several tables
50 from the dump. The -t and -x options are mutually exclusive.
51 -s Split tables. Dump each table to a separate TTX file and write
53 (under the name that would have been used for the output file
54 if the -s option had not been given) one small TTX file con‐
55 taining references to the individual table dump files. This
56 file can be used as input to ttx as long as the referenced
57 files can be found in the same directory.
58 -i Don't disassemble TrueType instructions. When this option is
60 specified, all TrueType programs (glyph programs, the font pro‐
61 gram and the pre-program) are written to the TTX file as hexa‐
62 decimal data instead of assembly. This saves some time and
63 results in smaller TTX files.
64 -y n When decompiling a TrueType Collection (TTC) file, decompile
66 font number n, starting from 0.
67 Compilation options
69 The following options control the process of compiling TTX files into
70 font files (TrueType or OpenType):
71 -m fontfile
73 Merge the input TTX file file with fontfile. No more than one
74 file argument can be specified when this option is used.
75 -b Don't recalculate glyph bounding boxes. Use the values in the
77 TTX file as is.
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80 You can find some information about the TTX file format in
81 documentation.html. In particular, you will find in that file the list
82 of tables understood by ttx and the relations between TrueType GlyphIDs
83 and the glyph names used in TTX files.
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86 In the following examples, all files are read from and written to the
87 current directory. Additionally, the name given for the output file
88 assumes in every case that it did not exist before ttx was invoked.
89 Dump the TrueType font contained in FreeSans.ttf to FreeSans.ttx:
91 ttx FreeSans.ttf
93 Compile MyFont.ttx into a TrueType or OpenType font file:
95 ttx MyFont.ttx
97 List the tables in FreeSans.ttf along with some information:
99 ttx -l FreeSans.ttf
101 Dump the ‘cmap’ table from FreeSans.ttf to FreeSans.ttx:
103 ttx -t cmap FreeSans.ttf
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107 On MS-Windows and MacOS, ttx is available as a graphical application to
108 which files can be dropped.
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111 documentation.html
112 fontforge(1), ftinfo(1), gfontview(1), xmbdfed(1), Font::TTF(3pm)
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116 ttx was written by Just van Rossum <just@letterror.com>.
117 This manual page was written by Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> for the
119 Debian GNU/Linux system based on the existing FontTools documentation.
120 It may be freely used, modified and distributed without restrictions.
121 May 18, 2004