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

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).

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 and others.