FONTTOSFNT(1)                                        General Commands Manual                                        FONTTOSFNT(1)

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

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

DESCRIPTION
       Wrap a bitmap font or a set of bitmap fonts in a sfnt (TrueType or OpenType) wrapper.

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 legal  but  con‐
              fuses  most  current software.  If n is 1, a single scalable glyph (the undefined glyph) is written; this is recom‐
              mended, 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 legal.  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.

BUGS
       Some of the font-level values, notably sub- and superscript positions, are dummy values.

SEE ALSO
       X(7), Xserver(1), Xft(3x).  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.

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