1FONTTOSFNT(1)               General Commands Manual              FONTTOSFNT(1)
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NAME

6       fonttosfnt - Wrap a bitmap font in a sfnt (OpenType) wrapper
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SYNOPSIS

9       fonttosfnt [ options ] -o file.otb [ -- ] [ font ] ...
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DESCRIPTION

12       Wrap  a  bitmap  font  or  a set of bitmap fonts in a sfnt (TrueType or
13       OpenType) wrapper.  If no font is specified, a BDF font  is  read  from
14       standard input (stdin).
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OPTIONS

17       -v     Be verbose.
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19       -c     Do  not  crop glyphs.  This usually increases file size, but may
20              sometimes yield a modest decrease in file size for small charac‐
21              ter cell fonts (terminal fonts).
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23       -b     Write  byte-aligned  glyph  data.  By default, unaligned data is
24              written, which yields a smaller file size.
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26       -r     Do not reencode fonts.  By default, fonts are reencoded to  Uni‐
27              code whenever possible.
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29       -g n   Set  the  type  of scalable glyphs that we write.  If n is 0, no
30              scalable glyphs are written; this is  legal  but  confuses  most
31              current software.  If n is 1, a single scalable glyph (the unde‐
32              fined glyph) is written; this is recommended, but triggers a bug
33              in  current  versions  of  FreeType.  If n is 2 (the default), a
34              sufficiently high number of  blank  glyphs  are  written,  which
35              works with FreeType but increases file size.
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37       -m n   Set  the  type of scalable metrics that we write.  If n is 0, no
38              scalable metrics are written, which may or may not be legal.  If
39              n  is  1,  full metrics for a single glyph are written, and only
40              left sidebearing values are written for the other glyphs.  If  n
41              is  2,  scalable  metrics  for  all  glyphs  are  written, which
42              increases file size and is not recommended.  The default is 1.
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BUGS

47       Some of the font-level values, notably sub- and superscript  positions,
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SEE ALSO

51       X(7), Xserver(1), Xft(3).  Fonts in X11.
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AUTHOR

54       The version of Fonttosfnt included in this X.Org Foundation release was
55       originally written by Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@freedesktop.org> for  the
56       XFree86 project.
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