NAME

       ufond -  convert UNIX font files into Macintosh format

SYNOPSIS

       ufond [-dfont] [-macbin] [-res] [-script name] fontfile...

DESCRIPTION

       The  program  ufond  takes UNIX font files, wraps them in a Macintosh resource fork, creates a family for
       them, and then wraps that in a macbinary or binhex file.

       The program reads one or more font files, specified at the end of the command  line,  using  any  of  the
       following formats:

       Glyph Bitmap Distribution (.bdf)

       TrueType (.ttf)

       OpenType (.otf)

       POSTSCRIPT Binary format (.pfb)

       All  fonts  with  the  same font family name will be placed in the same FOND.  The program associates the
       name of a POSTSCRIPT font with a bitmap font, as well  as  handling  bold,  italic,  and  other  variants
       properly.

       The generated Macintosh files will be in one of three formats:

       MacBinary (default)

       dfont (data fork resource file format, used by MacOS X)

       bare resource fork (you have to know how to transform this into a real resource fork)

       The program normally assumes that your fonts are in the roman script system.  If this is not true you may
       specify a script directly.  The program knows the names  of  a  few  scripts  (greek,  cyrillic,  hebrew,
       arabic) which may be entered directly; otherwise you must know the Macintosh script number.

OPTIONS

       -dfont Generate Macintosh files in dfont format.

       -macbin
              Generate Macintosh files in MacBinary format.

       -res   Generate Macintosh files in resource format.

       -script name
              Specify the Macintosh script number.

AUTHOR

       George Williams (gww@silcom.com).

       Manual  page by Ziying Sherwin (sherwin@nlm.nih.gov) and R.P.C Rodgers (rodgers@nlm.nih.gov), Lister Hill
       National Center for Biomedical Communications, U.S. National Library of Medicine.

                                                 23 October 2002                                        UFOND(1)