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

ttmkfdir [options] files...

This manual page documents briefly the ttmkfdir command.

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

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).

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

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>.