FONTTOSFNT(1)

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

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

fonttosfnt --help|--version

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 valid 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 valid. 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.

--help
    Prints a usage message and exits.

--version
    Prints version info and exits.

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 <jch@freedesktop.org> for the XFree86 project.