1FONTIMAGE(1) General Commands Manual FONTIMAGE(1)
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6 fontimage - produce a font thumbnail image
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9 fontimage [--help] [--width num] [--height num] [--pixelsize num]
10 [--text string] [--o outputfile] [--usage] [--version] fontfile
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13 The program fontimage loads a font, which may be in any format font‐
14 forge(1) can read, and then produces an image showing representative
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19 --help Provide a description with a list of the available options.
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21 --width num
22 Specifies the width of the output image. If this is omitted the
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26 Specifies the height of the output image. If this is omitted the
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30 Specifies the pixelsize used to display the text. This argument
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35 Specifies a line of text to be displayed. The string must be in
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43 Specifies the output filename for the image. The type of image
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49 Display the usage description.
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52 Display the current version
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57 The HTML version of the fontforge manual at:
58 http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/
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61 Copyright (C) 2006 by George Williams (gww@silcom.com).
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65 26 October 2006 FONTIMAGE(1)