makeafb(1) — USER COMMANDS

NAME

makeafb − create bitmap files from scalable Folio format files

SYNOPSIS

makeafb [ −a ] [ −e filename ] [ −f n ] [ −m|−M ] [ −p|−P ] [ −s ] [ −v|−V ] [ −values ]

DESCRIPTION

Makeafb creates Adobe ASCII format bitmap fonts ( .afb ) and Adobe ASCII format metric files ( .afm ) format files from scalable Folio format files ( .f3b ). These can then be converted with convertfont(1) for the X11/NeWS server. This is useful to avoid the calculation overhead of standard sizes of fonts.

OPTIONS

−aProduce font metric ( .afm ) files only.

−e filename Specify an encoding map file to be loaded along with the font. This option is only required if the encoding specified by the font is other than ISO Latin-1, Symbol or Dingbats.

−f nForce the length of the base part of the output filename to be at most n characters. The default is 32.

−mEnable generation of .afm files (the default).

−MDisable generation of .afm files.

−PDon´t preserve existing files (the default).

−pPreserve existing files. If −p is selected, then just before makeafb writes a file it will check to see if it alredy exists. If it does, the file will be skipped. This is useful in situations where you have some handbuilt .afb and .afm files, and just want to fill in the missing ones.

−sProduce a synthetic encoding map file in <encodingname>.map.

−vVerbose: print messages indicating what´s going on (the default).

−VWork silently.

−valuesA comma separated list of pixel sizes for which .afb files should be generated. The default is 6,8,10,12,14,16,18 .

EXAMPLES

% makeafb ∗.f3b % makeafb -p -4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,14,16,18,20,24 ∗.f3b

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