TTFDUMP(1)

💖 ttfdump ✨ (TTFDUMP(1), General Commands Manual)

okay bestie, this is the manual page for ttfdump 🎀 it's a General Commands Manual thing, and it's literally the tool for peeking inside TrueType font files 👀

🧚 NAME

• ttfdump — dumping the contents of a TrueType Font file 🍓

🌸 SYNOPSIS

ttfdump [-h] [-t tablename] [-g glyphnumber] [-c collection] [-o
dumpfile] [-i] ttfile

💅 DESCRIPTION

okay so ttfdump takes a TrueType font file and dumps everything inside it as ASCII text 🫶 a TrueType font file is made up of a bunch of tables, and those tables come in two flavors: Required Tables and Optional Tables ✨ you can also merge multiple TrueType fonts together into a TrueType Collection 🦋 it's giving organized wardrobe energy 💜

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -h — print a help message to standard output and exit 🙈
• -t tablename — if you pass this, ttfdump only dumps the table you name. if you don't, it dumps every single table in ttfile 😭 here's what you can pick from:

👑 Required Tables

• cmap — the character to glyph mapping table 🗺️
• glyf — glyph data 🔤
• head — font header 📜
• hhea — horizontal header ↔️
• hmtx — horizontal metrics 📏
• loca — index to location 📍
• maxp — maximum profile 💪
• name — naming table 🏷️
• post — PostScript information 🖨️
• OS/2 — OS/2 and Windows specific metrics 🪟

🌈 Optional Tables

• cvt — control value table 🎛️
• fpgm — font program; not implemented yet 💀
• gasp — grid-fitting and scan conversion procedure (grayscale) 🩶
• hdmx — horizontal device metrics 📐
• kern — kerning table 💕
• LTSH — linear threshold table 🌡️
• prep — CVT program; not implemented yet 💀
• PCLT — PCL5 table 🖨️
• VDMX — Vertical Device Metrics table 📏
• vhea — vertical metrics header ⬆️
• vmtx — vertical metrics 📏

🦋 Additional OpenType Tables

• GPOS — glyph positioning table 📌
• GSUB — glyph substitution table 🔁

• -g glyphnumber — if you pass this, ttfdump dumps just the glyph at that index. otherwise it dumps every glyph in ttfile 🔍
• -c collection — picks one TrueType font out of a TrueType Collection 🎀
• -o dumpfile — sends the dump into dumpfile instead of the screen. if you skip this, it goes to stdout 📝
• -i ttfile — the TrueType font file you want dumped 🫧

🎀 EXAMPLE

to dump all the info in the TrueType font file times.ttf:

ttfdump times.ttf

to dump just the required cmap table from that file:

ttfdump -t cmap times.ttf

to dump a single glyph with index 50:

ttfdump -g 50 times.ttf

🦋 SEE ALSO

• TrueType 1.0 Font Files, Technical Specification Revision 1.66, November 1995 📚

🙈 NOTE

⚠️ bestie, heads up: the instruction disassembler is not implemented 💀

🧚 AUTHOR

• Li-Da Lho, ollie@ms1.hinet.net 💜

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and that's the tea 🫶 this was the ttfdump manual from the ILX Project, last updated 14 November 2011 💖 slay the fonts responsibly ✨🌈