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TTF2PK(1)              DragonFly General Commands Manual             TTF2PK(1)

NAME
       ttf2pk - convert a TrueType font into TeX's PK format

SYNOPSIS
       ttf2pk [-q] [-n] font-name resolution
       ttf2pk -t [-q] font-name
       ttf2pk --version | --help

DESCRIPTION
       This program converts a TrueType font into a PK file; the created font
       can then be used with TeX or LaTeX.

       CJKV (Chinese/Japanese/Korean/old Vietnamese) subfonts as created by
       ttf2tfm are also supported.

       ttf2pk always assumes 10pt as the design size for the written TeX font.

PARAMETERS
       -q     This optional switch makes ttf2pk quiet.  It suppresses any
              informational output except warning and error messages.

       -n     Use only `.pk' as the extension instead of `.<resolution>pk'.

       -t     Test for the existence of font-name.  Returns 0 on success and
              prints out the corresponding line of a map file (default:
              ttfonts.map), provided the -q switch isn't set.

       font-name
              The TeX name of the font.  ttf2pk looks this name up in a map
              file (see below) for further information how to process the
              font.

       resolution
              The resolution, given in dots per inch.  Currently the
              horizontal resolution is equal to the vertical resolution.  The
              design size is always assumed to be 10pt.

       --version
              Shows the current version of ttf2pk and the used file search
              library (e.g. kpathsea).

       --help Shows usage information.

       Environment variables for file searching are described in the manual
       page of ttf2tfm.

THE CONFIGURATION FILE
       ttf2pk uses a small configuration file called ttf2pk.cfg; in each line
       it contains a keyword with its value, separated by whitespace.  Comment
       lines can start with any of the following characters: `*', `#', `;',
       and `%'.  Leading whitespace is ignored.

       Currently, only one keyword, `map', is recognized in this file; it
       takes a map file name as a parameter.  If no extension is given to the
       map file name, .map is appended.  No whitespace is allowed in the map
       file name.  The `map' keyword can be given more than once to specify
       multiple map files; if the map file name is prepended by a plus sign,
       it is added to the list of map files to be used.  Example:

         map  foo
         map +bar

       This makes ttf2pk to first read foo.map, then bar.map.

       If the configuration file is not found, ttf2pk tries to use ttfonts.map
       instead.

MAP FILES
       Parameters specified to ttf2tfm are preserved for ttf2pk in map
       files--ttf2tfm writes out to standard output, as the last line, a
       proper entry for a map file.

       As an example, a call to

         ttf2tfm arial -p T1.enc -s 0.25 -P 1 -E 0 arials

       will produce the following line:

         arials   arial Slant=0.25 Pid=1 Eid=0 Encoding=T1.enc

       See ttf2tfm(1) and afm2tfm(1) of the dvips package for a detailed
       description of encoding files.

       Here a table listing the various ttf2tfm parameters and the
       corresponding entries in a map file:

           -s                  Slant
           -e                  Extend
           -p                  Encoding
           -f                  Fontindex
           -P                  Pid
           -E                  Eid
           -n                  PS=Yes
           -N                  PS=Only
           -R                  Replacement
           -x                  Rotate=Yes
           -y                  Y-Offset

       Single replacement glyph names given to ttf2tfm with
       `-r old-glyphname new-glyphname' are directly specified with
       `old-glyphname=new-glyphname'.  They will be ignored if in subfont mode
       or if no encoding file is given.

       One additional parameter in a map file is unique to ttf2pk: `Hinting',
       which can take the values `On' or `Off'.  Some fonts (e.g. the CJK part
       of cyberbit.ttf) are rendered incorrectly if hinting is activated.
       Default is `On' (you can also use `Yes', `No', `1', and `0').

       For a description of subfonts (i.e., entries of the form
       `<namestem>@<sfd-filename>@') please refer to ttf2tfm(1).

       The format of a map file is simple.  Each line defines a font; first
       comes the TeX font name, then its TrueType font file name, followed by
       the parameters in any order.  Case is significant (even for parameter
       names); the parameters are separated from its values by an equal sign,
       with whitespace possibly surrounding it.  ttf2pk reads in all map files
       line by line in the order given in the configuration file, continuing
       until the TeX font specified on the command line is found, otherwise
       the programs exits with error code 2.  Thus you can use any character
       invalid in a TeX font name to start a comment line.

       You can use `\' as the final character of a line to indicate that the
       input is continued on the next line.  The backslash and the following
       newline character will be removed.

       ttf2pk will abort if it can't find or read the TeX font metrics file of
       the given TeX font name.

RETURN VALUE
       If the call was successful, 0 will be returned.  In case of error, the
       return value is 1.  Finally, if the font can't be found in the map
       files, 2 is returned.  This simplifies the inclusion of ttf2pk into
       scripts like mktexpk for automatic font generation.

SEE ALSO
       ttf2tfm(1), afm2tfm(1)

AVAILABILITY
       ttf2pk is part of the FreeType 1 package, a high quality TrueType
       rendering library.

AUTHORS
       Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
       Frederic LOYER <loyer@ensta.fr>

FreeType2 version                 04-May-2011                        TTF2PK(1)