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TTF2AFM(1)		    General Commands Manual		    TTF2AFM(1)

NAME
       ttf2afm - utility to generate AFM files for TrueType fonts

SYNOPSIS
       ttf2afm [OPTIONS] FONTFILE

DESCRIPTION
       ttf2afm is used to generate Adobe Font Metrics (AFM) files for TrueType
       (TTF) fonts to allow them to be used with TeX.

       ttf2afm	takes the name of a TrueType font file as a required argument.
       It may also take	one or more options from the list below	(-i and	-u are
       mutually	exclusive).

OPTIONS
       -i     force printing glyph names in form `index'decnum

       -u     force printing glyph names in form `uni'hexnum

       -c name
	      write encoding tables to file name.eMN, where M is the  platform
	      ID and N is the encoding ID

       -v     print program version

       -e enc encode AFM output	using encoding vector from enc

       -o outfile
	      output to	file outfile instead of	standard output

       -m num use Unicode mapping num in the font

       Platform	numbers	can be one of

       0      Apple Unicode

       1      Macintosh

       2      ISO

       3      Microsoft

       Encodings can be

       0      Roman (if	platform is Macintosh)

       0      Symbol (if platform is Microsoft)

       1      Unicode (if platform is Microsoft)

SEE ALSO
       afm2tfm(1),  afm2pl(1).	FontForge (https://fontforge.org).  LCDF Type-
       Tools (https://lcdf.org).  A closer look	at TrueType fonts and  pdfTeX,
       Han The Thanh (https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb30-1/tb94thanh.pdf).

BUGS
       Send bug	reports	to <pdftex@tug.org> (public mailing list).

AUTHOR
       ttf2afm is part of pdfTeX and was written by Han	The Thanh.

       This  manual  page was originally written by C.M. Connelly, for the De-
       bian GNU/Linux system, and updated by Karl Berry	and others.

Web2C 2025			 8 March 2022			    TTF2AFM(1)

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