man ttmkfdir (Commandes) - an utility for creating fonts.scale for TrueType fonts

NAME

ttmkfdir - an utility for creating fonts.scale for TrueType fonts

SYNOPSIS

ttmkfdir [options] files...

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the ttmkfdir command.

ttmkfdir is a program for creating the fonts.scale files for TrueType fonts.

OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below.

--help (or -h)
Shows summary of options.
--encoding (or -e) <encodings.dir>
directory containing the encoding definitions (please refer to <http://www.x.org/X11R6.8.2/doc/fonts.html> for more details). The default encodings.dir location is /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/encodings.dir
--font-dir (or -d) <directory>
scan directory <directory> for TrueType font files (default is the current directory)
--output (or -o) <filename>
write output to file named <filename> (default is fonts.scale in current directory)
--default-foundry (or -f) <foundry>
use <foundry> name for unknown font vendors (default is 'misc')
--max-missing (or -m) <number>
maximal number of missing characters per encoding (default is 5). This options applies to the encoding that has less than 256 code-points definitions.
--font-backend (or -b) <number>
font back-end type. For the X FreeType (xft) one use value '1', for the XTT one use value '2', default value is 1, X Free Type. This option is required for TrueType Collection font (.ttc).
--additional-entries (or -x) <number>
for the XTT back-end: generate extra TTCaps stuff (f.ex. for the bold and italic support). For the FreeType back-end: generate extra "dummy" XLFDs for bold and italic. Defaults to '0', '1' enables the option.
--completeness (or -c)
use less strict completeness tests for encoding tables
-p
use panose information (Panose is a typeface classification system which can be embedded in the font itself).

SEE ALSO

You can find more about Panose system on this website: <http://www.monotypeimaging.com/printer/pan1.asp>.

AUTHOR

Upstream author is Joerg Pomnitz <pommnitz@darmstadt.gmd.de>. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux system by Miros/law L. Baran <baran@debian.org> and then rewritten using the original RedHat README file by Yu Shao <yshao@redhat.com>.