SHOWTTF(1)

💖 SHOWTTF(1) — General Commands Manual 💖

okay bestie, welcome to showttf, section 1 of the General Commands Manual, and honestly? she's a baddie. this one's gonna be so fun, i promise.

✨ NAME ✨

showttf — decompose a font file into its various tables and display it 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

showttf [--verbose] [--headers] [--checkhead] fontfile

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so. showttf is a program that will decompose a truetype (or opentype) font file into its various tables and display the contents of those tables as best it can. like, it's doing its best, and its best is genuinely great 💅

it will also point out the errors it finds in the file. yes ma'am, it's a font file and a personality reader.

this is similar to MicroSoft's ttfdump — except showttf shows some of Apple's tables which ttfdump does not. and it's similar to Apple's ftxdumperfuser — except showttf shows some OpenType tables which Apple's ignores. 🙈

and, of course, showttf is open source and runs on most any system. no cap, she's for everybody 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --verbose, -v — Print additional information. she's giving ✨detail✨
• --headers, -h — Print headers only. just the vibes, none of the lore
• --checkhead, -c — Check Head. yes, the head table, and yes, she's checking it

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

fontforge(1) acorn2sfd(1) ttf2eps(1)

go read those too bestie, they're the friend group 🫶

✨ AUTHORS ✨

showttf was written by by George Williams <gww@silcom.com>. (yes, "by by" — that's literally what the original says, and honestly? iconic. we stan a typo that stayed 😭)

This manual page was written by Kestutis Biliunas <kebil@kaunas.init.lt>, for the Debian system (but may be used by others). 💜

FontForge is currently maintained by the FontForge development team. See /usr/share/doc/fontforge/AUTHORS for a comprehensive list of contributors. 🌸

aaaand that's the whole page bestie!! 2006-Dec-23 is the date on this one — vintage, archival, lowkey a time capsule 🎀 go run it on a font file and tell me everything ✨💖