Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Installation

2.1 The configure script
2.2 Prerequisites

2.2.1 Archives

2.3 Problems

3. Overview

3.1 Picture
3.2 Creating fonts

3.2.1 Font creation example

3.3 Command-line options

3.3.1 The main input file
3.3.2 Common options
3.3.3 Specifying character codes

3.3.3.1 Named character codes
3.3.3.2 Numeric character codes

3.3.4 Common option values

3.4 Font searching
3.5 Font naming

4. Bugs

4.1 Bug criteria
4.2 Bug reporting

4.2.1 Necessary information
4.2.2 Unnecessary information
4.2.3 Documentation bugs

5. File formats

5.1 File format abbreviations
5.2 Common file syntax
5.3 Encoding files

5.3.1 Character names
5.3.2 Ligature definitions
5.3.3 GNU encodings

5.4 Coding scheme map file

6. Imageto

6.1 Imageto usage

6.1.1 Viewing an image
6.1.2 Image to font conversion
6.1.3 Dirty images

6.2 IFI files
6.3 Invoking Imageto

7. IMGrotate

7.1 IMGrotate usage

7.1.1 Clockwise rotation
7.1.2 Flip rotation

7.2 Invoking IMGrotate

8. Fontconvert

8.1 Invoking Fontconvert

8.1.1 Fontconvert output options
8.1.2 Character selection options
8.1.3 Character manipulation options
8.1.4 Fontwide information options
8.1.5 Miscellaneous options

9. Charspace

9.1 Charspace usage
9.2 CMI files

9.2.1 CMI tokens
9.2.2 char command
9.2.3 char-width command
9.2.4 define command
9.2.5 kern command
9.2.6 codingscheme command
9.2.7 fontdimen command

9.2.7.1 TFM fontdimens

9.2.8 CMI processing

9.3 Invoking Charspace

10. Limn

10.1 Limn algorithm

10.1.1 Finding pixel outlines
10.1.2 Finding corners
10.1.3 Removing knees
10.1.4 Filtering curves
10.1.5 Fitting the bitmap curve

10.1.5.1 Initializing t
10.1.5.2 Finding tangents
10.1.5.3 Finding the spline
10.1.5.4 Reparameterization
10.1.5.5 Subdivision

10.1.6 Changing splines to lines
10.1.7 Changing lines to splines
10.1.8 Aligning endpoints
10.1.9 Displaying fitting online

10.2 Invoking Limn

11. BZRto

11.1 Metafont and BZRto

11.1.1 Metafont output at any size
11.1.2 Proofing with Metafont

11.2 Type 1 PostScript fonts and BZRto
11.3 Type 3 PostScript fonts and BZRto
11.4 CCC files

11.4.1 CCC setchar statements
11.4.2 CCC move statements

11.5 Invoking BZRto
11.6 BZR files

11.6.1 BZR format introduction
11.6.2 BZR preamble
11.6.3 BZR characters

11.6.3.1 BZR character beginnings
11.6.3.2 BZR character shapes

11.6.4 BZR postamble

12. BPLtoBZR

12.1 BPL files

12.1.1 BPL preamble
12.1.2 BPL characters

12.1.2.1 BPL outlines

12.1.3 BPL postamble

12.2 Invoking BPLtoBZR

13. XBfe

13.1 XBfe usage

13.1.1 Controlling XBfe
13.1.2 XBfe shape editing

13.1.2.1 Selections
13.1.2.2 Enlarging the bitmap

13.1.3 XBfe metrics editing

13.2 Invoking XBfe

14. BZRedit

14.1 BZRedit usage

14.1.1 BZRedit installation
14.1.2 Editing BZR files
14.1.3 Editing BPL files

14.1.3.1 BZRedit and Ghostscript

15. GSrenderfont

15.1 GSrenderfont usage

15.1.1 GSrenderfont font names
15.1.2 GSrenderfont output size
15.1.3 GSrenderfont encoding

15.2 Invoking GSrenderfont

16. Enhancements

16.1 Additional fonts

16.1.1 Legal issues

16.2 Program features
16.3 Portability
16.4 Implementation

A. GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

Preamble
Appendix: How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs

B. Regain your programming freedom

B.1 Software patents
B.2 User interface copyright
B.3 What to do?

Index