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TTF2AFM(1)                             General Commands Manual                            TTF2AFM(1)



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 encod‐
              ing 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    (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).

BUGS
       Send bug reports to <pdftex AT 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.



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