Dr Andrew Scott
G7VAV
Senior Lecturer
School of Computing
and Communications
D35 InfoLab21
Lancaster University
Lancaster, LA1 4WA
United Kingdom
School of Computing
and Communications
D35 InfoLab21
Lancaster University
Lancaster, LA1 4WA
United Kingdom
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TTFDUMP
Section: User Commands (1)Updated: 18 Feb 1997
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NAME
ttfdump - Dumping the contents of a TrueType Font fileSYNOPSIS
ttfdump [-h] [-t tablename] [-g glyphnumber] [-c collection] [-i] ttfile [-o dumpfile]DESCRIPTION
ttfdump dumps the contents of a TrueType font file in ASCII form. A TrueType font file is consist of various tables. Those table are divided into two categories - Required Tables and Optional Tables. Mulitiple TrueType fonts and be merged to a TrueType Collection.Options
- -h
- Print a help message on standard output and exit.
- -t tablename
-
If this option is specified then dump the table "tablename", otherwise
dump every tables in ttfile.
Tablename can be one of the following:
-
- Required Tables
- cmap
- character to glhph mapping table
- glyf
- glyph data
- head
- font header
- hhea
- horizontal header
- hmtx
- horizontal metrics
- loca
- index to location
- maxp
- maximum profile
- name
- naming table
- post
- PostScript information
- OS/2
- OS/2 and windows specific metrics
- Optional Tables
- cvt
- control value table
- fpgm
- font program; not implemented yet.
- gasp
- grid-fitting and scan conversion procedure (grayscale)
- hdmx
- horizontal device metrics
- kern
- kerning table
- LTSH
- Linear threshold table
- prep
- CVT program; not implemented yet
- PCLT
- PCL5 table
- VDMX
- Vertical Device Metrics table
- vhea
- vertical metrics header
- vmtx
- vertical metrics
-
- -g glyphnumber
- If this option is specified then dump the glyph with index glyphnumber, otherwise dump all glyphs in ttfile.
- -c collection
- Select a TrueType font in a TrueType Collection.
- -i ttfile
- TrueType font file to be dumped.
- -o dumpfile
- Output of the dump. If this option is not specified, dump to stdout.
EXAMPLE
To dump all information in the TrueType font file times.ttf:- ttfdump times.ttf
To dump the required table cmap in the file:
- ttfdump -t cmap times.ttf
To dump a single glyph with index 50:
- ttfdump -g 50 times.ttf
SEE ALSO
TrueType 1.0 Font Files, Technical Specification Revision 1.66 November 1995NOTE
Instruction disassembler in not implemented.AOTHOR
Li-Da Lho, ollie@ms1.hinet.net
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