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NAME

       fontforge - create, modify, and view font files

SYNOPSIS

       fontforge [-c string] [-cmap maptype] [-depth pixeld] [-display str] [-lang=ff] [-lang=py]
       [-library-status]   [-help]   [-keyboard ktype]   [-new]    [-nosplash]    [-recover mode]
       [-script file] [-sync] [-usage] [-vc class] [-version] [fontfile ...]

DESCRIPTION

       FontForge  will  read PostScript (pfa, pfb, ps, cid), OpenType (otf), TrueType (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 scriptfile 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 information.

       -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  colors  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-compatible 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.

       -library-status
                   Prints information about optional libraries 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 argument -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 option.  All other
                   arguments are passed to the script.

EXAMPLE

       Sample usage:

              fontforge myfont.ttf &

ENVIRONMENT

       BROWSER
              Specifies the name of a browser program for examining online documentation.

       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://fontforge.sourceforge.net/
              cidmaps.tgz.

SEE ALSO

       sfddiff(1)

       The    HTML    version    of    the    FontForge    manual,    available    online     at:
       http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/.

NOTE

       FontForge used to be called PfaEdit.

AUTHORS

       FontForge  is Copyright © 2000–2014 by George Williams, and is currently maintained by the
       FontForge development team.  See /usr/share/doc/fontforge/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/fontforge/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  license"
       ([pdf](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 combined 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/fontforge/fontforge/issues/.

                                           2017 Jun 18                               FONTFORGE(1)