.ds Ps P\s-2OST\s+2S\s-2CRIPT\s+2
.TH UFOND 1 "23 October 2002"
.SH NAME
ufond \-  convert UNIX font files into Macintosh format
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B ufond
.RB [ \-dfont ]
.RB [ \-macbin ]
.RB [ \-res ]
.RB [ \-script 
.IR name ]
.BR  fontfile ...
.SH DESCRIPTION
The program
.B ufond
takes UNIX font files,
wraps them in a Macintosh resource fork,
creates a family for them,
and then wraps that in a macbinary or binhex file. 
.LP
The program reads one or more font files,
specified at the end of the command line, 
using any of the following formats:
.TP
Glyph Bitmap Distribution (.bdf)
.TP
TrueType (.ttf)
.TP
OpenType (.otf)
.TP
\*(Ps Binary format (.pfb)
.LP
All fonts with the same font family name will be placed in the same FOND. 
The program associates the name of a \*(Ps font with a bitmap font, 
as well as handling bold, italic, and other variants properly.
.LP
The generated Macintosh files will be in one of three formats:
.TP
MacBinary (default)
.TP
dfont (data fork resource file format, used by MacOS X) 
.TP
bare resource fork (you have to know how to transform this into a real resource fork)
.LP
The program normally assumes that your fonts are in the roman script system. 
If this is not true you may specify a script directly. 
The program knows the names of a few scripts
(greek, cyrillic, hebrew, arabic) 
which may be entered directly;
otherwise you must know the Macintosh script number. 
.\" more information about Macintosh scripts is important here
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-dfont 
Generate Macintosh files in dfont format.
.TP
.B \-macbin 
Generate Macintosh files in MacBinary format.
.TP
.B \-res
Generate Macintosh files in resource format.
.TP
.BI \-script " name" 
Specify the Macintosh script number.
.SH AUTHOR
George Williams (gww@silcom.com).
.LP
Manual page by
Ziying Sherwin (sherwin@nlm.nih.gov) and
R.P.C Rodgers (rodgers@nlm.nih.gov),
Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications,
U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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