ttf2afm(1) General Commands Manual ttf2afm(1)
NAME
ttf2afm - generate afm files for TrueType fonts for a given encoding
SYNOPSIS
ttf2afm [options] ttf-file
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 use Unicode mapping num in the font
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 (https://fontforge.org),
LCDF TypeTools (https://lcdf.org).
A closer look at TrueType fonts and pdfTeX, Han The Thanh,
https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb30-1/tb94thanh.pdf
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 and others.
Public discussion list for ttf2afm: https://lists.tug.org/pdftex
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