Ubuntu Manpage: fntsample - PDF and PostScript font samples generator

NAME

       fntsample - PDF and PostScript font samples generator

SYNOPSIS

       fntsample [ OPTIONS ] -f FONT-FILE -o OUTPUT-FILE
       fntsample -h

DESCRIPTION

       fntsample  program  can  be  used to generate font samples that show Unicode coverage of the font and are
       similar in appearance to Unicode charts. Samples can be saved into PDF (default) or PostScript file.

OPTIONS

fntsample supports the following options.

--font-file, -f FONT-FILE
Make samples of FONT-FILE.

--font-index, -n IDX
Font index for FONT-FILE specified using --font-file option. Useful for files that contain
multiple fonts, like TrueType Collections (.ttc). By default font with index 0 is used.

--output-file, -o OUTPUT-FILE
Write output to OUTPUT-FILE.

--other-font-file, -d OTHER-FONT
Compare FONT-FILE with OTHER-FONT. Glyphs added to FONT-FILE will be highlighted.

--other-index, -m IDX
Font index for OTHER-FONT specified using --other-font-file option.

--postscript-output, -s
Use PostScript format for output instead of PDF.

--svg, -g
Use SVG format for output. The generated document contains one page. Use range selection options
to specify which.

--print-outline, -l
Print document outlines data to standard output. This data can be used to add outlines (aka
bookmarks) to resulting PDF file with pdfoutline program.

--include-range, -i RANGE
Show characters in RANGE.

--exclude-range, -x RANGE
Do not show characters in RANGE.

--style, -t "STYLE: VAL"
Set STYLE to value VAL. Run fntsample with option --help to see list of styles and default
values.

--help, -h
Display help text and exit.

Parameter RANGE for -i and -x can be given as one integer or a pair of integers delimited by minus sign
(-). Integers can be specified in decimal, hexadecimal (0x...) or octal (0...) format. One integer of a
pair can be missing (-N can be used to specify all characters with codes less or equal to N, and N- for
all characters with codes greather or equal to N). Multiple -i and -x options can be used.

EXAMPLES

       Make PDF samples for font.ttf and write them to file samples.pdf:
              fntsample -f font.ttf -o samples.pdf

       Make PDF samples for font.ttf, compare it with oldfont.ttf and highlight new glyphs. Write output to file
       samples.pdf:
              fntsample -f font.ttf -d oldfont.ttf -o samples.pdf

       Make  PostScript  samples for font.ttf and write output to file samples.ps.  Show only glyphs for charac‐
       ters with codes less or equal to U+04FF but exclude U+0370-U+03FF:
              fntsample -f font.ttf -s -o samples.ps -i -0x04FF -x 0x0370-0x03FF

       Make PDF samples for font.ttf and save output to file samples.pdf adding outlines to it:
              fntsample -f font.ttf -o temp.pdf -l > outlines.txt
              pdfoutline temp.pdf outlines.txt samples.pdf

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