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fntsample

NAME

fntsample - PDF and PostScript font samples generator

SYNOPSIS

fntsample [ OPTIONS ] -f FONT-FILE -o OUTPUT-FILE
fntsample -h

DESCRIPTION

fntsample program can be used to generate font samples that show Unicode coverage of the font and are similar in appearance to Unicode charts. Samples can be saved into PDF (default) or PostScript file.

OPTIONS

fntsample supports the following options.

--font-file, -f FONT-FILE

Make samples of FONT-FILE

--font-index, -n IDX

Font index for FONT-FILE specified using --font-file option. Useful for files that contain multiple fonts, like TrueType Collections (.ttc). By default font with index 0 is used.

--output-file, -o OUTPUT-FILE

Write output to OUTPUT-FILE

--other-font-file, -d OTHER-FONT

Compare FONT-FILE with OTHER-FONT. Glyphs added to FONT-FILE will be highlighted.

--other-index, -m IDX

Font index for OTHER-FONT specified using --other-font-file option.

--postscript-output, -s

Use PostScript format for output instead of PDF.

--print-outline, -l

Print document outlines data to standard output. This data can be used to add outlines (aka bookmarks) to resulting PDF file with pdfoutline program.

--include-range, -i RANGE

Show characters in RANGE.

--exclude-range, -x RANGE

Do not show characters in RANGE.

--style, -t "STYLE: VAL"

Set STYLE to value VAL. Run fntsample with option --help to see list of styles and default values.

--help, -h

Display help text and exit

Parameter RANGE for -i and -x can be given as one integer or a pair of integers delimited by minus sign (-). Integers can be specified in decimal, hexadecimal (0x...) or octal (0...) format. One integer of a pair can be missing (-N can be used to specify all characters with codes less or equal to N, and N- for all characters with codes greather or equal to N). Multiple -i and -x options can be used.

EXAMPLES

Make PDF samples for font.ttf and write them to file samples.pdf:

 fntsample -f font.ttf -o samples.pdf
 
 

Make PDF samples for font.ttf, compare it with oldfont.ttf and highlight new glyphs. Write output to file samples.pdf:

 fntsample -f font.ttf -d oldfont.ttf -o samples.pdf
 
 

Make PostScript samples for font.ttf and write output to file samples.ps. Show only glyphs for characters with codes less or equal to U+04FF but exclude U+0370-U+03FF:

 fntsample -f font.ttf -s -o samples.ps -i -0x04FF -x 0x0370-0x03FF
 
 

Make PDF samples for font.ttf and save output to file samples.pdf adding outlines to it:

 fntsample -f font.ttf -o temp.pdf -l > outlines.txt
 pdfoutline temp.pdf outlines.txt samples.pdf
 
 

AUTHOR

Copyright © 2007 Eugeniy Meshcheryakov <eugen@debian.org>
Homepage: <http://sourceforge.net/projects/fntsample>

SEE ALSO

pdfoutline(1)