NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

       defoma-hints - generate font hints.

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

       defoma-hints [-c] category fonts...

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

       defoma-hints  is  a tool to help generating font hints. It asks various
       questions about the typeface of a font, reads information from  a  font
       file, and outputs the generated hints to STDOUT in a hintfile format.

FILES    [Toc]    [Back]

       /usr/share/defoma/libhint-*.pl
	      Perl  libraries  which are prepared for each category. These are
	      category-specific hints-generating program.

EXAMPLES    [Toc]    [Back]

       1.  Create  a  hintfile	named	type1.hints   for   type1   fonts   in
       /usr/share/fonts/type1.

       defoma-hints type1 /usr/share/fonts/type1/*.pfb > type1.hints

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

       defoma(1).



				March  4, 2001		       defoma-hints(1)