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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 mutu-
     ally exclusive).

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

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

     -c namewrite 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 TypeTools
     (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 Debian
     GNU/Linux system, and updated by Karl Berry and others.

Web2C 2025			  8 March 2022			      TTF2AFM(1)

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