FONTIMAGE(1) General Commands Manual FONTIMAGE(1)
NAME
fontimage - produce a font thumbnail image
SYNOPSIS
fontimage [--help] [--width num] [--height num] [--pixelsize num]
[--text string] [--o outputfile] [--usage] [--version] fontfile
DESCRIPTION
The program fontimage loads a font, which may be in any format font-
forge(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 necessary 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
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 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
fontforge(1)
The HTML version of the fontforge manual at:
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/
AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 2006 by George Williams (gww@silcom.com).
26 October 2006 FONTIMAGE(1)
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