UFOND(1)						      General Commands Manual							  UFOND(1)

NAME

       ufond -	convert UNIX font files into Macintosh format

SYNOPSIS

       ufond [-dfont] [-macbin] [-res] [-script name] fontfile...

DESCRIPTION

       The  program  ufond  takes  UNIX  font  files, wraps them in a Macintosh resource fork, creates a family for them, and then wraps that in a
       macbinary or binhex file.

       The program reads one or more font files, specified at the end of the command line, using any of the following formats:

       Glyph Bitmap Distribution (.bdf)

       TrueType (.ttf)

       OpenType (.otf)

       POSTSCRIPT Binary format (.pfb)

       All fonts with the same font family name will be placed in the same FOND.  The program associates the name of a POSTSCRIPT font with a bit-
       map font, as well as handling bold, italic, and other variants properly.

       The generated Macintosh files will be in one of three formats:

       MacBinary (default)

       dfont (data fork resource file format, used by MacOS X)

       bare resource fork (you have to know how to transform this into a real resource fork)

       The  program  normally assumes that your fonts are in the roman script system.  If this is not true you may specify a script directly.  The
       program knows the names of a few scripts (greek, cyrillic, hebrew, arabic) which may be entered directly; otherwise you must know the  Mac-
       intosh script number.

OPTIONS

       -dfont Generate Macintosh files in dfont format.

       -macbin
	      Generate Macintosh files in MacBinary format.

       -res   Generate Macintosh files in resource format.

       -script name
	      Specify the Macintosh script number.

AUTHOR

       George Williams (gww@silcom.com).

       Manual  page  by  Ziying  Sherwin (sherwin@nlm.nih.gov) and R.P.C Rodgers (rodgers@nlm.nih.gov), Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical
       Communications, U.S. National Library of Medicine.

								  23 October 2002							  UFOND(1)