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NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

       Wrap  a  bitmap  font  or  a set of bitmap fonts in a sfnt (TrueType or
       OpenType) wrapper.

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(3x).  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.