FONTIMAGE(1)

✨ NAME ✨

fontimage — bestie, it makes you a lil thumbnail pic of a font 🖼️💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

fontimage [--help] [--width num] [--height num] [--pixelsize num]
[--text string] [--o outputfile] [--usage] [--version] fontfile

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the vibe: fontimage loads up a font — and no cap, it can be any format that fontforge(1) can read — and then it makes an image showing off some representative glyphs from that font. like a little photoshoot for your typeface. iconic behavior honestly 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --help — hands you a description plus the whole list of available options. your lil cheat sheet 🫶
• --width num — sets how wide the output image is. if you don't say anything? it just goes as wide as it needs to be to fit the text. no pressure, no limits, she's flexible ✨
• --height num — sets how tall the output image is. skip it and the image is as tall as it needs to be to display the text. she grows as much as the drama requires 💅
• --pixelsize num — sets the pixelsize used to display the text. you can drop this one multiple times, and each one applies to whatever --text lines come after it. it's like a lil setting that sticks for the next few lines only 🎀
• --text string — one line of text to display. the string has to be in UTF-8, fr fr. you can pass this multiple times to stack up several lines of text. and if you pass zero --text arguments? then fontimage goes detective mode on the font, checks out the various scripts it knows about, and tries to show something appropriate for each one. she's resourceful like that 🔍
• -o outfile — names the output file for the image. the type of image gets figured out from the file's extension — and rn the only ones recognized are ".bmp" and ".png". leave it out and fontimage will pick an output name based on the font's fontname field. she'll name it herself, she's got taste 🌈
• --usage — shows you the usage description.
• --version — shows you the current version.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• fontforge(1)
• the HTML version of the fontforge manual lives at: http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ 👀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright (C) 2006 by George Williams (gww@silcom.com).

okay that's the whole page bestie, go make some pretty pictures 💖

this page came from the General Commands Manual, dated 26 October 2006 — thanks for reading, ily, mwah 🫶✨