NAME

makeafb − create bitmap files from scalable F3 font files

SYNOPSIS

makeafb [ −a ] [ −e filename ] [ −f n ] [ −m|−M ] [ −p|−P ] [ −s ] [ −v|−V ] [ −values ] [ −x ]

DESCRIPTION

makeafb creates Adobe ASCII format bitmap fonts (.afb or .bdf) and Adobe ASCII format metric files (.afm) from scalable F3 font files (.f3b).  These can then be converted with convertfont(1) for the X11/NeWS server.  This is useful to avoid the calculation overhead of standard sizes of fonts. 

makeafb will not create bitmaps if screen protection for the F3 font has been activated or if any form of protection exists and the requested size is 24 or higher. 

OPTIONS

-a Produce font metric (.afm) files only. 

-e filename Specify an encoding map file to be loaded along with the font.  This option is only required if the encoding specified by the font is other than ISO Latin-1, Symbol or Dingbats. 

-fn Force the length of the base part of the output filename to be at most n characters.  The default is 32. 

-m Enable generation of .afm files (the default). 

-M Disable generation of .afm files. 

-p Preserve existing files.  If -p is selected, then just before makeafb writes a file it will check to see if it already exists.  If it does, the file will be skipped.  This is useful in situations where you have some handbuilt .afb and .afm files, and just want to fill in the missing ones. 

-P Don´t preserve existing files (the default). 

-s Produce a synthetic encoding map file in <encodingname>.map. 

-v Verbose:  print messages indicating what´s going on (the default). 

-V Work silently. 

-values A comma separated list of pixel sizes for which .afb files should be generated.  The default is 6,8,10,12,14,16,18 . 

-x Selects Adobe/MIT X11 BDF2.1 output format in place of .afb. The output file extension will be .bdf.

EXAMPLES

% makeafb ∗.f3b
% makeafb -p -4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,14,16,18,20,24 ∗.f3b

SEE ALSO

convertfont(1), bldfamily(1), map2ps(1)

SunOS 5.2  —  Last change: 16 January 1992