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TTF2AFM(1)             DragonFly General Commands Manual            TTF2AFM(1)


NAME

       ttf2afm - utility to generate AFM files for TrueType fonts


SYNOPSIS

       ttf2afm [OPTIONS] FONTFILE


DESCRIPTION

       ttf2afm is used to generate Adobe Font Metrics (AFM) files for TrueType
       (TTF) fonts to allow them to be used with TeX.

       ttf2afm takes the name of a TrueType font file as a required argument.
       It may also take one or more options from the list below (-i and -u are
       mutually exclusive).


OPTIONS

       -i     force printing glyph names in form `index'decnum

       -u     force printing glyph names in form `uni'hexnum

       -c name
              write encoding tables to file name.eMN, where M is the platform
              ID and N is the encoding ID

       -v     print program version

       -e enc encode AFM output using encoding vector from enc

       -o outfile
              output to file outfile instead of standard output

       -m num

       Platform numbers can be one of

       0      Apple Unicode

       1      Macintosh

       2      ISO

       3      Microsoft

       Encodings can be

       0      Roman (if platform is Macintosh)

       0      Symbol (if platform is Microsoft)

       1      Unicode (if platform is Microsoft)


SEE ALSO

       afm2tfm(1), afm2pl(1).  FontForge (http://fontforge.sf.net).  LCDF
       TypeTools (http://lcdf.org).  A closer look at TrueType fonts and
       pdfTeX, Han The Thanh (http://tug.org/TUGboat/tb30-1/tb94thanh.pdf).


BUGS

       Send bug reports to <pdftex@tug.org> (public mailing list).


AUTHOR

       ttf2afm is part of pdfTeX and was written by Han The Thanh.

       This manual page was originally written by C.M. Connelly, for the
       Debian GNU/Linux system, and updated by Karl Berry.

Web2C 2015                       27 April 2015                      TTF2AFM(1)

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