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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 necesary 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