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.
- --svg, -g
- Use SVG format for output. The generated document contains
one page. Use range selection options to specify which.
- --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://fntsample.sourceforge.net/>
SEE ALSO¶
pdfoutline(1)
