makeafb(1)

create bitmap files from scalable Folio format files

From the original Amiga UNIX 2.1 manual. Some things it mentions may not be in this release.

NAME

makeafb - create bitmap files from scalable Folio format files

SYNOPSIS

makeafb [ -m|-M ] [ -p|-P ] [ -v|-V ] [ -f n ] [ -values ]

DESCRIPTION

Makeafb creates Adobe ASCII format bitmap fonts ( .afb ) and Adobe ASCII format metric files ( .afm ) format files from scalable Openfont format files. 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.

OPTIONS

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

-M Disable generation of .afm files.

-P Don't preserve existing files (the default).

-p Preserve existing files. If -p is selected, then just before makeafb writes a file it will check to see if it alredy 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.

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

-V Work silently.

-f n      Force the length of the base part  of  the  output
          filename  to be at most n characters.  The default
          is 8.

-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 .

EXAMPLES