NAME

       fonttosfnt - Wrap a bitmap font in a sfnt (OpenType) wrapper

SYNOPSIS

       fonttosfnt [ options ] -o file.otb [ -- ] [ font ] ...

DESCRIPTION

       Wrap  a  bitmap  font  or  a set of bitmap fonts in a sfnt (TrueType or OpenType) wrapper.  If no font is
       specified, a BDF font is read from standard input (stdin).

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  confuses  most  current  software.   If n is 1, a single scalable glyph (the undefined
              glyph) is written; this is recommended, 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(3).  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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