NAME

       fontimage - produce a font thumbnail image

SYNOPSIS

       fontimage  [--help]  [--width  num]  [--height  num]  [--pixelsize  num] [--text string] [--o outputfile]
       [--usage] [--version] fontfile

DESCRIPTION

       The program fontimage loads a font, which may be in any format fontforge(1) can read, and  then  produces
       an image showing representative glyphs of the font.

OPTIONS

       --help Provide a description with a list of the available options.

       --width num
              Specifies the width of the output image. If this is omitted the image will be as wide as necessary
              to display the text.

       --height num
              Specifies the height of the output image. If this  is  omitted  the  image  will  be  as  high  as
              necessary to display the text.

       --pixelsize num
              Specifies  the  pixelsize  used to display the text. This argument may be specified multiple times
              and each refers to any --text lines that follow it.

       --text string
              Specifies a line of text to be displayed. The string must be  in  UTF-8.   This  argument  may  be
              specified  multiple  times  to  provide several lines of text. If no --text arguments are supplied
              fontimage will examine the font, looking for various scripts it  knows  about,  and  will  try  to
              display something appropriate for each.

       -o  outfile
              Specifies  the  output  filename for the image. The type of image will be determined by the file's
              extension. Currently only ".bmp" and ".png" are recognized. If omitted fontimage  will  choose  an
              output name based on the font's fontname field.

       --usage
              Display the usage description.

       --version
              Display the current version

SEE ALSO

       fontforge(1)

       The HTML version of the fontforge manual at:
       http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/

AUTHOR

       Copyright (C) 2006 by George Williams (gww@silcom.com).

                                                 26 October 2006                                    FONTIMAGE(1)