Manual: fonttosfnt

FONTTOSFNT(1)					   General Commands Manual				       FONTTOSFNT(1)

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

SYNOPSIS
       fonttosfnt [ options ] -o file.otb [ -- ] [ font ] ...

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

OPTIONS
       -v     Be verbose.

       -c     Do  not crop glyphs.  This usually increases file size, but may sometimes yield a modest decrease in file size
	      for small character cell fonts (terminal fonts).

       -b     Write byte-aligned glyph data.  By default, unaligned data is written, which yields a smaller file size.

       -r     Do not reencode fonts.  By default, fonts are reencoded to Unicode whenever possible.

       -g n   Set the type of scalable glyphs that we write.  If n is 0, no scalable glyphs are written; this is  legal	 but
	      confuses	most current software.	If n is 1, a single scalable glyph (the undefined glyph) is written; this is
	      recommended, but triggers a bug in current versions of FreeType.	If n is 2 (the default), a sufficiently high
	      number of blank glyphs are written, which works with FreeType but increases file size.

       -m n   Set the type of scalable metrics that we write.  If n is 0, no scalable metrics are written, which may or	 may
	      not  be  legal.	If n is 1, full metrics for a single glyph are written, and only left sidebearing values are
	      written for the other glyphs.  If n is 2, scalable metrics for all glyphs are written,  which  increases	file
	      size and is not recommended.  The default is 1.

       --     End of options.

BUGS
       Some of the font-level values, notably sub- and superscript positions, are dummy values.

SEE ALSO
       X(7), Xserver(1), Xft(3).  Fonts in X11.

AUTHOR
       The  version  of	 Fonttosfnt  included  in this X.Org Foundation release was originally written by Juliusz Chroboczek
        for the XFree86 project.

X Version 11					      fonttosfnt 1.2.3					       FONTTOSFNT(1)