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FONTFORGE(1) General Commands Manual FONTFORGE(1) NAME fontforge - create, modify, and view font files SYNOPSIS fontforge [-allglyphs] [-c string] [-cmap maptype] [-depth pixeld] [-dis- play str] [-lang=ff] [-lang=py] [-help] [-keyboard ktype] [-last] [-new] [-nosplash] [-quiet] [-recover mode] [-script file] [-skippyfile] [-skippy- plug] [-sync] [-unique] [-usage] [-vc class] [-version] [fontfile ...] DESCRIPTION FontForge will read PostScript (pfa, pfb, ps, cid), OpenType (otf), True- Type (ttf, ttc), Macintosh resource fonts (dfont, bin, hqx), Scaled Vector Graphics (svg), TeX bitmap (pk), Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format (bdf), and X11 bitmap (pcf) fonts. Font files may be compressed with gzip (for example, myfont.pcf.gz). FontForge will also read its own format: Spline Font Database (sfd) files. If the argument list contains a font file name (or several), fontforge opens a fontview window for each font displaying the characters of that font. In the absence of options or arguments, the program opens a file- picker window, allowing you to browse your disk to find a font file, or create a new one. This manual page is intended only as a rudimentary overview; see the HTML Users Manual for more complete information. If no fontfiles are specified, and neither is -new, and there is nothing to recover, then FontForge will produce an open font dialogue box. If a scriptfile is specified then FontForge will not open the X display, nor will it process any additional arguments. It will execute the script- file and give it any remaining arguments If the first argument is an executable filename, and that file's first line contains "fontforge", then it will be treated as a scriptfile. OPTIONS -new Creates a new font. -last Loads the last sfd file closed. -recover none|auto|inquire|clean Control error recovery. none suppresses crash revcovery. auto performs automatic recover if the program crashed before saving changes; this is the default. inquire asks what to do with auto-saved crash recovery files. clean deletes recovery infor- mation. -allglyphs Load all glyphs in the 'glyf' table. of a TrueType collection. -nosplash Suppress display of the splash screen. -quiet Don't print non-essential information to stderr. -unique If a copy of fontforge is already running, open all arguments in it and have this process exit. -display display-name Employ the X display specified by the string display-name (for example: localhost:0). -depth pixeld Attempt to employ a visual that matches the specified pixel depth, pixeld. -vc val Sets the visual class if possible. -cmap current|copy|private Sets the type of color map. current attempts to allocate col- ors int he current (shared) color map. The program will likely not find everything it requires. copy allocates what can be allocated, then copies the current color map; it can thus make use of cells other programs are using. private creates a new color map and fills it with the required colors. -dontopenxdevices In case that fails. -sync Syncs the display, debugging. -keyboard ibm|mac|sun|ppc Generates appropriate hotkeys in menus. Use ibm on an IBM-com- patible PC. Use mac on a Mac computer running Mac OS. Use sun on a Sun workstation. Use ppc on Power PC Mac running SUSE GNU/Linux. -usecairo=yes|no Use (or not) the cairo library for drawing. -help Displays a help message and exits. -docs Displays help file output and then invokes a browser using the BROWSER environment variable. -version Prints the version of fontforge and exits. -lang=py Use Python for scripts (may precede -script). -lang=ff Use fontforge's legacy scripting language. -script scriptfile Executes scriptfile. Must be the first option (or follow -lang). All other arguments are passed to scriptfile. Execute the script named file. Does not open the X display. This must be the first argument passed to FontForge. Any other arguments are handled by the script file itself. Any other command line arguments will be passed to the script. The program contains a command interpreter, which allows access to most but not all of its interactive features. If a script file is executable, and if its first line contains the string "fontforge", then the ar- gument -script may be omitted. This means that FontForge can be used as an interpreter. -dry scriptfile Syntax checks scriptfile (dry run). Must be the first option. All other arguments are passed to scriptfile. This option can only be used with fontforge's own scripting language, not with Python. -c script-string Executes argument as scripting commands. Must be the first op- tion. All other arguments are passed to the script. -skippyfile Do not execute Python init scripts when initializing. -skippyplug Do not load (enabled) Python plugins when initializing. EXAMPLE Sample usage: fontforge myfont.ttf & ENVIRONMENT BROWSER Specifies the name of a browser program for examining online docu- mentation. AUTOTRACE Specifies the location of the autotrace program. Usually FontForge can figure this out without help, but not always. MF Specifies the location of the metafont program. FONTFORGE_VERBOSE Turns on verbose mode in scripting. Each statement is printed as it is executed. FILES ~/.FontForge/autosave Crash recovery directory. /usr/share/fontforge/*.ui Translations for user interfaces. /usr/share/fontforge/doc/*.html Optional location for online documentation. /usr/share/fontforge/*.cidmap "Encoding" files for Adobe's cid formats, from http://font- forge.sourceforge.net/cidmaps.tgz. SEE ALSO sfddiff(1) The HTML version of the FontForge manual, available online at: http://font- forge.sourceforge.net/. NOTE FontForge used to be called PfaEdit. AUTHORS FontForge is Copyright (C) 2000-2014 by George Williams, and is currently maintained by the FontForge development team. See /usr/share/doc/font- forge/AUTHORS for a comprehensive list of contributors. LICENSE FontForge is licensed under GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later (http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html) with many parts covered by a BSD license (http://fontforge.org/license.html). Please read the LICENSE file included in the FontForge distribution for details, or see https://github.com/font- forge/fontforge/blob/master/LICENSE. FontForge is available as a whole under the terms of the GNU GPL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html), version 3 or any later version. However, almost all of its parts are available under the "revised BSD li- cense" (http://www.law.yi.org/~sfllaw/talks/bsd.pdf) because FontForge was mostly written by George Williams, using that license. The Revised BSD License is very permissive, and allows for code to be com- bined with other code under other licenses. There are many useful libraries available under copyleft libre licenses, such as the LGPL and GPL, which FontForge started to use in 2012. For example, Pango and Cairo are available under the LGPL. Some features added since 2012 are licensed by their individual developers under the GPLv3. BUGS See the FontForge Github Issue Tracker, at https://github.com/font- forge/fontforge/issues/. 2017 Jun 18 FONTFORGE(1)
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