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FONTFORGE(1)							  FONTFORGE(1)

NAME
       fontforge - create and modify PostScript, TrueType and SVG fonts

SYNOPSIS
       fontforge  [-c  string]	[-cmap maptype] [-depth pixeld] [-display str]
       [-lang=ff]  [-lang=py]  [-last]	[-library-status]  [-help]  [-keyboard
       ktype]  [-new]  [-nosplash]  [-recover  mode]  [-script	file]  [-sync]
       [-usage] [-vc vclass] [-version] fontfile ...

DESCRIPTION
       The program fontforge allows you	 to  create  and  modify  font	files,
       accepting  input	 in the following formats (with associated file exten‐
       sions appearing in parentheses):

       Glyph Bitmap Distribution (.bdf)

       Macintosh resource fonts (.dfont, .bin, .hqx)

       OpenType (.otf)

       fontforge spline font database (.sfd)

       POSTSCRIPT, which includes:

	      ASCII format (.pfa)

	      Binary format (.pfb)

	      CID-keyed fonts, Adobe convention used primarily for Asian char‐
	      acters (.cid, .otf)

	      POSTSCRIPT Type 0 (.ps)

	      POSTSCRIPT Type 3 (.ps)

       Scaleable vector graphics fonts (.svg)

       TeX bitmap (.pk)

       TrueType (.ttf, .ttc)

       X11 bitmap (.pcf)

       If  the argument list contains a font file name (or several), fontforge
       opens a fontview window for each font displaying the characters of  the
       that font.  In the absence of options or arguments, the program opens a
       file-picker window, allowing you to browse your disk  to	 find  a  font
       file, or create a new one.

       This  manual  page  is intended only as a rudimentary overview; see the
       HTML Users Manual for more complete information.

OPTIONS
       -c string
	      Must be the first	 argument.  Executes  "string"	as  a  set  of
	      scripting	 commands.  Any additional arguments will be passed to
	      the script.

       -cmap maptype
	      Employ the specified method to control  8-bit  colormaps,	 where
	      maptype assumes one of these three values:

	      current
		     Attempt  to  allocate colors in the current (shared) col‐
		     ormap.  The program will likely not  find	everything  it
		     requires.

	      copy   Allocate  what  can  be  allocated, then copy the current
		     colormap; it can thus make use of	cells  other  programs
		     are using.

	      private
		     Create  a new colormap and fill it with the required col‐
		     ors.

       -depth pixeld
	      Attempt to employ a visual  that	matches	 the  specified	 pixel
	      depth, pixeld.

       -display str
	      Employ  the  X display specified by the string str (for example:
	      localhost:0).

       -help  Display the usage description and start a web client  displaying
	      the online documentation.

       -keyboard ktype
	      Alter the displayed menus to employ modifier keys appropriate to
	      the specified keyboard type, where ktype assumes one of the fol‐
	      lowing four values:

	      ibm    IBM PC type keyboard.

	      mac    Apple Macintosh keyboard.

	      sun    Sun workstation keyboard.

	      ppc    Macintosh	keyboard,  but	on a system running SuSe linux
		     (the mappings differ from those used under MacOS X).

       -last  Opens whatever font you last  edited  with  fontforge.   If  you
	      specify n -last fontforge will open the last n fonts.

       -lang=ff
	      Interpret the script with the fontforge interpreter.

       -lang=py
	      Interpret the script with the python interpreter.

       -library-status
	      Prints information about optional libraries.

       -new   Create  a	 new  font  with the ISO 8859-1 encoding (the interna‐
	      tional encoding standard for western Europe,  and	 the  standard
	      for most X fonts).

       -nosplash
	      Suppress display of the splash screen.

       -recover mode
	      Control  the crash recovery mechanism (helpful if crash recovery
	      causes problems), where mode takes on one of three allowed  set‐
	      tings:

	      auto   perform  automatic	 recovery  (default)  if  the  program
		     crashed before saving changes.

	      clean  Delete recovery information.

	      none   Suppress crash recovery.

       -script file
	      Execute the script named file.  Does not	open  the  X  display.
	      This  must  be the first argument passed to fontforge. Any other
	      arguments are handled by the scriptfile itself.  Any other  com‐
	      mand  line  arguments will be passed to the script.  The program
	      contains a command interpreter which allows access to  most  but
	      not  all	of  its interactive features.  If a scriptfile is exe‐
	      cutable, and if its first line contains the string  "fontforge",
	      then  the argument -script may be omitted. This means that font‐
	      forge can be used as an interpreter.

       -sync  Make X synchronous.  Used primarily for debugging,  this	option
	      slows X down.

       -usage Display the usage description.

       -vc vclass
	      Attempt  to  use a visual that matches the class, vclass, speci‐
	      fied as either the name of a visual class or an integer  enumer‐
	      ating a visual class.

       -version
	      Display  the  current version (a six digit string containing the
	      date stamp of the source files).

ENVIRONMENT
       If any of the following environment variables exist, they are used:

       BROWSER
	      Specifies the name of a browser program for examining documenta‐
	      tion.

       AUTOTRACE
	      Specifies	 the  location of the autotrace program (usually Font‐
	      Forge can figure this out without help, but not always).

       MF     Specifies the location of the metafont program.

       FONTFORGE_VERBOSE
	      Turns on verbose mode in scripting. Each statement is printed as
	      it is executed.

FILES
       ~/.PfaEdit/autosave/
	      crash recovery directory

       /usr/local/share/fontforge/*.ui
	      translations for the user interface

       /usr/local/share/doc/fontforge/*.html
	      optional location for online documentation.

       /usr/local/share/fontforge/*.cidmap
	      "encoding"  files	 for  Adobe's  cid  formats  from http://font‐
	      forge.sourceforge.net/cidmaps.tgz

SEE ALSO
       sfddiff(1)

       The HTML version of the fontforge manual, available online at:

       http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/

NOTE
       fontforge used to be called pfaedit.

AUTHOR
       Copyright (C) 2000-2007 by George Williams (gww@silcom.com).   Original
       manual  page  by	 Tom Harvey, subsequently modified by George Williams.
       Heavily rewritten and modified to  use  standard	 -man  (5)  macros  by
       R.P.C. Rodgers (rodgers@nlm.nih.gov), 23 October 2002.

BUGS
       Undoubtedly many, but unknown and ever changing.	 See

	      http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/#known-bugs for a current list.

				 2 March 2004			  FONTFORGE(1)
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