Man page 1 : ttf2afm

ttf2afm - utility to generate AFM files for TrueType fonts

ttf2afm [ OPTION... ] FONTFILE

ttf2afm is used to generate Adobe Font Metrics (AFM) files for TrueType (TTF) fonts to allow them to be used with TeX.

ttf2afm takes the name of a TrueType font file as a required argument. It may also take one or more options from the list below (note that -d and -h are mutually exclusive).

-a print all glyphs

-i read names in encoding vector in form `indexnum'

-d print glyph names in the form `indexdecimal_num'

-h print glyph names in the form `indexhex_num'

-c name print encoding tables to file name.eMN, where M is the platform number and N is the encoding

-e enc use encoding from file enc

-o output output to file output instead of stdout

Platform numbers can be one of

0 Apple Unicode

1 Macintosh

2 ISO

3 Microsoft

Encodings can be

0 Roman (if platform is Macintosh)

0 Symbol (if platform is Microsoft)

1 Unicode (if platform is Microsoft)

None known, but submit bug reports to <> (mailing list).

ttf2afm is part of pdfTeX and was written by Han The Thanh <>.

This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly <>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It may be used by other distributions without contacting the author. Any mistakes or omissions in the manual page are my fault; inquiries about or corrections to this manual page should be directed to me (and not to the primary author).