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TTMKFDIR(1) General Commands Manual TTMKFDIR(1)

NAME

ttmkfdir - Utility to create fonts.scale files for truetype fonts

SYNOPSIS

ttmkfdir [OPTION]

DESCRIPTION


Originally written by Joerg Pommnitz, ttmkfdir is a tool to create valid and complete fonts.scale file from TrueType fonts. It is very useful when you plan to use a TrueType enabled font server that is based on the X11R6 sample implementation (xfsft for instance). Great care has been taken to correctly identify the encodings that a given TrueType font supports.

The ttmkfdir comes with Red Hat Linux has experienced quite some modifications or improvements, include:

- migration to FreeType 2 library

OPTIONS

Here is the detailed usage of Red Hat version of ttmkfdir.

It shows the menus and combo box in iok UI
ttmkfdir is doing its job by checking each TrueType font file against fontenc layer, please refer www.xfree86.org/current/fonts.html for details. Default encodings.dir file is /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/encodings.dir
Specify output, default is fonts.scale in the current directory
Specify TrueType font directory, default is the current directory
Specify name of the default font foundry, default is "misc"
Specify the maximum number of missing characters per encoding, default is 5. This option applies to the encoding that has less than 256 codepoint definitions.
Specify the maximum percentage of missing characters per encoding, default is 2. This option applies to the encoding that has more than 256 codepoint definitions.
For X FreeType backend, use value "1", for XTT backend use value "2", default value is 1. When you have TrueType Collection font(.ttc), you need to use this option.
Additional entries mean those extra TTCaps stuff for XTT backend, mainly for bold and italic font support. Or for FreeType backend, because FreeType still doesn't support bold and italic font, ttmkfdir can generate extra "dummy" XLFDs, so applications who asking those fonts won't complain.

Default value is "0" means off,otherwise use "1" to switch it on.

use less strict completeness tests for encoding tables
use panose information

AUTHOR

Yu Shao <yshao@redhat.com> and Pravin Satpute <psatpute@redhat.com>

LICENSE

GNU Library General Public License

March 28, 2013