TTFAUTOHINTGUI(1)

💖 TTFAUTOHINTGUI 💖

okay bestie, welcome to ttfautohintGUI, a User Commands girlie from the ttfautohint fam (this one's rockin' version 1.8.4, vintage August 2021 energy ✨).

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✨ NAME ✨

ttfautohintGUI — add new, auto-generated hints to a TrueType font 🫶

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

ttfautohintGUI [OPTION]...

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

It's a GUI application that replaces hints in a TrueType font. That's it, that's the job. 💅

The new hints are based on FreeType's auto-hinter. periodt.

This program is a simple front-end to the ttfautohint library. like, it's the library's cute little outfit for the desktop. 👑

Long options can be given with one or two dashes, and with and without an equal sign between option and argument. So all of these forms are acceptable:

-foo=bar
--foo=bar
-foo bar
--foo bar

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too — no skipping, bestie, the rule applies to everyone equally. 💀

Options not related to Qt or X11 set default values.

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🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

• -a, --stem-width-mode=S — select stem width mode for grayscale, GDI ClearType, and DW ClearType. Here S is a string of three letters, where the possible values are n for natural, q for quantized, and s for strong. default: qsq ✨
• -c, --composites — hint glyph composites also 🧩
• -d, --dehint — remove all hints. all of them. gone. 🙈
• -D, --default-script=S — set default OpenType script. default: latn
• -f, --fallback-script=S — set fallback script. default: none
• -F, --family-suffix=S — append suffix to the family name string(s) in the name table
• -G, --hinting-limit=N — switch off hinting above this PPEM value. default: 200; a value of 0 means no limit (main character behavior fr fr)
• -h, --help — display this help and exit
• -H, --fallback-stem-width=N — set fallback stem width. default: 50 font units at 2048 UPEM
• --help-all — show Qt and X11 specific options also 👀
• -i, --ignore-restrictions — override font license restrictions
• -I, --detailed-info — add detailed ttfautohint info to the version string(s) in the name table
• -l, --hinting-range-min=N — the minimum PPEM value for hint sets. default: 8
• -n, --no-info — don't add ttfautohint info to the version string(s) in the name table
• -p, --adjust-subglyphs — handle subglyph adjustments in exotic fonts 🦄
• -r, --hinting-range-max=N — the maximum PPEM value for hint sets. default: 50
• -s, --symbol — input is symbol font
• -S, --fallback-scaling — use fallback scaling, not hinting
• -t, --ttfa-table — add TTFA information table
• -v, --verbose — show progress information
• -V, --version — print version information and exit
• -W, --windows-compatibility — add blue zones for usWinAscent and usWinDescent to avoid clipping
• -x, --increase-x-height=N — increase x height for sizes in the range 6<=PPEM<=N; a value of 0 switches off this feature. default: 14
• -X, --x-height-snapping-exceptions=STRING — specify a comma-separated list of x-height snapping exceptions, for example "-9, 13-17, 19". default: ""

💻 Qt Options 💻

• --reverse — set layout direction to right-to-left
• --style=STYLE — set application GUI style (available values like windows or gtk depend on Qt version and installed plug-ins)
• --stylesheet=SHEET — apply the given Qt stylesheet to the application widgets

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The program accepts both TTF and TTC files as input.

Use option -i only if you have a legal permission to modify the font. bestie. please. 🫶

The used PPEM value for option -p is FUnits per em, normally 2048.

With option -s, use default values for standard stem width and height, otherwise they are derived from script-specific characters resembling the shape of character o.

A hint set contains the optimal hinting for a certain PPEM value; the larger the hint set range (as given by options -l and -r), the more hint sets get computed, usually increasing the output font size. The gasp table of the output file always enables grayscale hinting for all sizes (limited by option -G, which is handled in the bytecode). Increasing the value of -G does not increase the output font size. 📈 (or not, ig 💅)

Options -f and -D take a four-letter string that identifies a script. Option -f sets the script used as a fallback for glyphs that can't be associated with a known script. By default, such glyphs are hinted; if option -S is set, they are scaled only instead. Option -D sets the default script for handling OpenType features.

Possible four-letter string values are

• adlm (Adlam)
• arab (Arabic)
• armn (Armenian)
• avst (Avestan)
• bamu (Bamum)
• beng (Bengali)
• buhd (Buhid)
• cakm (Chakma)
• cans (Canadian Syllabics)
• cari (Carian)
• cher (Cherokee)
• copt (Coptic)
• cprt (Cypriot)
• cyrl (Cyrillic)
• deva (Devanagari)
• dsrt (Deseret)
• ethi (Ethiopic)
• geor (Georgian (Mkhedruli))
• geok (Georgian (Khutsuri))
• glag (Glagolitic)
• goth (Gothic)
• grek (Greek)
• gujr (Gujarati)
• guru (Gurmukhi)
• hebr (Hebrew)
• hmnp (Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong)
• kali (Kayah Li)
• khmr (Khmer)
• khms (Khmer Symbols)
• knda (Kannada)
• lao (Lao)
• latn (Latin)
• latb (Latin Subscript Fallback)
• latp (Latin Superscript Fallback)
• lisu (Lisu)
• mlym (Malayalam)
• medf (Medefaidrin)
• mong (Mongolian)
• mymr (Myanmar)
• nkoo (N'Ko)
• olck (Ol Chiki)
• orkh (Old Turkic)
• osge (Osage)
• osma (Osmanya)
• rohg (Hanifi Rohingya)
• saur (Saurashtra)
• shaw (Shavian)
• sinh (Sinhala)
• sund (Sundanese)
• taml (Tamil)
• tavt (Tai Viet)
• telu (Telugu)
• tfng (Tifinagh)
• thai (Thai)
• vaii (Vai)
• yezi (Yezidi)
• none (no script)

A command-line version of this program is called ttfautohint. 💅

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😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

Found a bug? spill it to: freetype-devel@nongnu.org 📧

ttfautohint home page: <https://www.freetype.org/ttfautohint>

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright © 2011-2021 Werner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org>. License: FreeType License (FTL) or GNU GPLv2.

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.

There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

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and that's the whole page bestie 🎀 it's giving ttfautohintGUI 1.8.4, dated August 2021 — go hint some fonts, you ate 💅✨🦋