## 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.