NAME¶
ufond - convert UNIX font files into Macintosh format
SYNOPSIS¶
ufond [
-dfont] [
-macbin] [
-res] [
-script
name]
fontfile...
DESCRIPTION¶
The program
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.
The program reads one or more font files, specified at the end of the command
line, using any of the following formats:
- Glyph Bitmap Distribution (.bdf)
- TrueType (.ttf)
- OpenType (.otf)
- POSTSCRIPT Binary format (.pfb)
All fonts with the same font family name will be placed in the same FOND. The
program associates the name of a POSTSCRIPT font with a bitmap font, as well
as handling bold, italic, and other variants properly.
The generated Macintosh files will be in one of three formats:
- MacBinary (default)
- dfont (data fork resource file format, used by MacOS
X)
- bare resource fork (you have to know how to transform this
into a real resource fork)
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.
OPTIONS¶
- -dfont
- Generate Macintosh files in dfont format.
- -macbin
- Generate Macintosh files in MacBinary format.
- -res
- Generate Macintosh files in resource format.
- -script name
- Specify the Macintosh script number.
AUTHOR¶
George Williams (gww@silcom.com).
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.