fontimage

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).