NAME

       fontimage - produce a font thumbnail image

SYNOPSIS

       fontimage  [--help]  [--width  num]  [--height  num]  [--pixelsize  num] [--text string] [--o outputfile]
       [--usage] [--version] fontfile

DESCRIPTION

       The program fontimage loads a font, which may be in any format fontforge(1) can read, and  then  produces
       an image showing representative glyphs of the font.

OPTIONS

       --help Provide a description with a list of the available options.

       --width num
              Specifies the width of the output image. If this is omitted the image will be as wide as necessary
              to display the text.

       --height num
              Specifies  the  height  of  the  output  image.  If  this  is omitted the image will be as high as
              necessary to display the text.

       --pixelsize num
              Specifies the pixelsize used to display the text. This argument may be  specified  multiple  times
              and each refers to any --text lines that follow it.

       --text string
              Specifies  a  line  of  text  to  be displayed. The string must be in UTF-8.  This argument may be
              specified multiple times to provide several lines of text. If no  --text  arguments  are  supplied
              fontimage  will  examine  the  font,  looking  for various scripts it knows about, and will try to
              display something appropriate for each.

       -o  outfile
              Specifies the output filename for the image. The type of image will be determined  by  the  file's
              extension.  Currently  only  ".bmp" and ".png" are recognized. If omitted fontimage will choose an
              output name based on the font's fontname field.

       --usage
              Display the usage description.

       --version
              Display the current version

SEE ALSO

       fontforge(1)

       The HTML version of the fontforge manual at:
       http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/

AUTHOR

       Copyright (C) 2006 by George Williams (gww@silcom.com).

                                                 26 October 2006                                    FONTIMAGE(1)