NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

       Wrap a bitmap font or a set of bitmap fonts in a sfnt (TrueType or OpenType) wrapper.

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(3x).  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.