showttf(1)

showttf1

Decompose a font file into its various tables and display it

Usage

showttf [--verbose] [--headers] [--checkhead] fontfile

Overview

showttf is a program which will decompose a truetype (or opentype) font file into its various tables and display the contents of those tables as best it can. It will also point out the errors it finds in the file. This is similar to MicroSoft's ttfdump (except the showttf shows some of Apple's tables which ttfdump does not), and to Apple's ftxdumperfuser (except the showttf shows some OpenType tables which Apple's ignores). And, of course, showttf is open source and runs on most any system.

Options

--verbose -v

Print additional information.

--headers -h

Print headers only

--checkhead -c

Check Head

Releases

10 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 5.0
  2. 6.0–10
  3. 11–Arch

--checkhead since Debian 11 (Bullseye); --headers since Debian 11 (Bullseye); --verbose since Debian 11 (Bullseye); -c since Debian 11 (Bullseye); -h since Debian 11 (Bullseye); -v since Debian 11 (Bullseye).

-verbose until Debian 10 (Buster).

Authors

showttf was written by by George Williams <[email protected]>.

This manual page was written by Kestutis Biliunas <[email protected]>, for the Debian system (but may be used by others).

FontForge is currently maintained by the FontForge development team. See /usr/share/doc/fontforge/AUTHORS for a comprehensive list of contributors.

From fontforge 20251009-5 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.