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SFDDIFF(1)						      General Commands Manual							SFDDIFF(1)

NAME

       sfddiff - compare two font files

SYNOPSIS

       sfddiff	[--help]  [--ignorehints]  [--ignorenames]  [--ignoregpos]  [--ignoregsub]  [--ignorebitmaps] [--exact] [--warn] [--merge outfile]
       [--usage] [--version] fontfile1 fontfile2

DESCRIPTION

       The program sfddiff compares two font files, which may be in any format fontforge(1) can read.  It will notice the following differences:

       1)     Characters are present in one font but not in the other.

       2)     Characters are present in both fonts but have different sets of outlines or references.  The outlines may be compared so	that  only
	      exact  matches  are accepted, or so that a fuzzier match is used.  Similarly references may need to match exactly, or may be matched
	      after an unlink.

	      This fuzzy comparison is useful when comparing truetype and postscript fonts, or when comparing a font with references to one  with-
	      out.

       3)     The postscript hints or truetype instructions are different.

       4)     The font names (the truetype `name' table) differ.

       5)     The kerning (and other `gpos' information) differs.

       6)     The ligatures (and other `gsub' information) differ.

       7)     Any bitmap strikes present in one font but not in the other.

       8)     Any bitmap characters present in one strike of one font but in the equivalent strike of the other.

       9)     Any bitmap characters which differ.

OPTIONS

       --help Provide a description with a list of the available options.

       --ignorehints
	      Suppress the reporting of hint/instruction differences.

       --ignoregpos
	      Suppress the reporting of kerning (and other `gpos') differences.

       --ignoregsub
	      Suppress the reporting of ligature (and other `gsub') differences.

       --ignorenames
	      Suppress the reporting of name string differences.

       --ignorebitmaps
	      Suppress the reporting of bitmap differences.

       --exact
	      Require outlines to match exactly.

       --warn Warn if the outlines/references are slightly different.

       --merge outfile
	      Store  a	merged version of the two fonts into the specified output file.  The merged data will be based on sfdfile1, as well as any
	      characters present in sfdfile2 but not in sfdfile1 will be added, and the outlines of sfdfile2 will be  placed  in  the  background.
	      Finally, for any characters with different outlines or references the background of the the character will contain the outlines from
	      sfdfile2 (references will be unlinked into outlines and those outlines also will be added).

       --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) 2000-2006 by George Williams (gww@silcom.com).  Manual page heavily rewritten and modified to use standard -man(5) macros	by
       R.P.C. Rodgers (rodgers@nlm.nih.gov), 23 October 2002.

								   8 April 2006 							SFDDIFF(1)

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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 fontforge(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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