Man1 - ttf2afm.1

ttf2afm - utility to generate AFM files for TrueType fonts

ttf2afm [/OPTIONS/] FONTFILE

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).

-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

1. Apple Unicode
2. Macintosh
3. ISO
4. Microsoft

Encodings can be

1. Roman (if platform is Macintosh)
2. Symbol (if platform is Microsoft)
3. Unicode (if platform is Microsoft)

afm2tfm(1), afm2pl(1). FontForge (http://fontforge.sf.net). LCDF TypeTools (http://lcdf.org). A closer look at TrueType fonts and pdfTeX, Han The Thanh (http://tug.org/TUGboat/tb30-1/tb94thanh.pdf).

Send bug reports to <pdftex@tug.org> (public mailing list).

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.