NAME

       fonttosfnt - Wrap a bitmap font in a sfnt (OpenType) wrapper

SYNOPSIS

       fonttosfnt [ options ] -o file.otb [ -- ] [ font ] ...

DESCRIPTION

       Wrap  a bitmap font or a set of bitmap fonts in a sfnt (TrueType or OpenType) wrapper.  If
       no font is specified, a BDF font is read from standard input (stdin).

OPTIONS

       -v     Be verbose.

       -c     Do not crop glyphs.  This usually increases file size, but may  sometimes  yield  a
              modest decrease in file size for small character cell fonts (terminal fonts).

       -b     Write byte-aligned glyph data.  By default, unaligned data is written, which yields
              a smaller file size.

       -r     Do not reencode fonts.   By  default,  fonts  are  reencoded  to  Unicode  whenever
              possible.

       -g n   Set  the  type of scalable glyphs that we write.  If n is 0, no scalable glyphs are
              written; this is legal but confuses most current software.  If n  is  1,  a  single
              scalable  glyph (the undefined glyph) is written; this is recommended, but triggers
              a bug in current versions of FreeType.  If n is 2  (the  default),  a  sufficiently
              high  number  of  blank glyphs are written, which works with FreeType but increases
              file size.

       -m n   Set the type of scalable metrics that we write.  If n is 0, no scalable metrics are
              written, which may or may not be legal.  If n is 1, full metrics for a single glyph
              are written, and only left sidebearing values are written for the other glyphs.  If
              n  is 2, scalable metrics for all glyphs are written, which increases file size and
              is not recommended.  The default is 1.

       --     End of options.

BUGS

       Some of the font-level values, notably sub- and superscript positions, are dummy values.

SEE ALSO

       X(7), Xserver(1), Xft(3).  Fonts in X11.

AUTHOR

       The version of Fonttosfnt included in this X.Org Foundation release was originally written
       by Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@freedesktop.org> for the XFree86 project.