ufond (1)

ufond [-dfont] [-macbin] [-res] [-script name] fontfile...

The program ufond takes UNIX font files, wraps them in a Macintosh resource fork, creates a family for them, and then wraps that in a macbinary or binhex file.

The program reads one or more font files, specified at the end of the command line, using any of the following formats:

Glyph Bitmap Distribution (.bdf)

TrueType (.ttf)

OpenType (.otf)

\*(Ps Binary format (.pfb)

All fonts with the same font family name will be placed in the same FOND. The program associates the name of a \*(Ps font with a bitmap font, as well as handling bold, italic, and other variants properly.

The generated Macintosh files will be in one of three formats:

MacBinary (default)

dfont (data fork resource file format, used by MacOS X)

bare resource fork (you have to know how to transform this into a real resource fork)

The program normally assumes that your fonts are in the roman script system. If this is not true you may specify a script directly. The program knows the names of a few scripts (greek, cyrillic, hebrew, arabic) which may be entered directly; otherwise you must know the Macintosh script number.

-dfont

Generate Macintosh files in dfont format.

-macbin

Generate Macintosh files in MacBinary format.

-res

Generate Macintosh files in resource format.

-script name

Specify the Macintosh script number.

George Williams ([email protected]).

Manual page by Ziying Sherwin ([email protected]) and R.P.C Rodgers ([email protected]), Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, U.S. National Library of Medicine.