NAME
fontimage - produce a font thumbnail image
SYNOPSIS
fontimage
[--help]
[--width
R num ]
[--height
R num ]
[--pixelsize
R num ]
[--text
R string ]
[--o
R outputfile ]
[--usage]
[--version]
fontfile
DESCRIPTION
The program
fontimage
loads a font, which may be in any format
R fontforge (1)
can read, and then produces an image showing representative glyphs of the font.
OPTIONS
--help
Provide a description with a list of the available options.
--width num
Specifies the width of the output image. If this is omitted the image will
be as wide as necesary to display the text.
--height num
Specifies the height of the output image. If this is omitted the image will be
as high as necessary to display the text.
--pixelsize num
Specifies the pixelsize used to display the text. This argument may be specified
multiple times and each refers to any --text lines that follow it.
--text string
Specifies a line of text to be displayed. The string must be in UTF-8.
This argument may be specified multiple times to
provide several lines of text. If no --text arguments are supplied
R fontimage
will examine the font, looking for various scripts it knows about, and will
try to display something appropriate for each.
-o outfile
Specifies the output filename for the image. The type of image will be determined
by the file's extension. Currently only ".bmp" and ".png" are recognized. If
omitted
R fontimage
will choose an output name based on the font's fontname field.
--usage
Display the usage description.
--version
Display the current version
SEE ALSO
The HTML version of the
fontforge
manual at:
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/
AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 2006 by George Williams (gww@silcom.com).