defoma-hints(1)

defoma-hints1

Generate font hints.

Usage

defoma-hints [-c] [--no-question] category fonts ...

Overview

defoma-hints is a tool to help generating font hints. It asks various questions about the typeface of a font, reads information from a font file, and outputs the generated hints to STDOUT in a hintfile format.

Options

-c

Force text interface, even if $DISPLAY is set.

--no-question

Accept default hint choice without prompting.

Files

/usr/share/defoma/libhint-*.pl

Perl libraries which are prepared for each category. These are category-specific hints-generating program.

Examples

1. Create a hintfile named type1.hints for type1 fonts in /usr/share/fonts/type1.

defoma-hints --no-question type1 /usr/share/fonts/type1/*.pfb > type1.hints

Releases

5 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1
  3. 4.0–6.0

--no-question since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -c since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).

From defoma 0.11.11 in Debian 6.0 (Squeeze). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.