UFOND(1)

💖 UFOND(1) 💖

okay bestie, buckle up, because this is the manual page for ufond — a General Commands Manual situation, and it's literally about to convert your UNIX font files into Macintosh format. no cap. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

ufond — convert UNIX font files into Macintosh format 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ufond [-dfont] [-macbin] [-res] [-script name] fontfile...

like. that's the whole vibe. short, sweet, iconic. 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea, bestie 🍓 — the program ufond takes your UNIX font files, wraps them in a Macintosh resource fork, creates a family for them, and then wraps that in a macbinary or binhex file. it's giving gift-wrapping but for fonts. 🎁

the program reads one or more font files, specified at the end of the command line, using any of the following formats:

• Glyph Bitmap Distribution (.bdf)
• TrueType (.ttf)
• OpenType (.otf)
• POSTSCRIPT Binary format (.pfb)

all fonts with the same font family name will be placed in the same FOND. ✨ the program associates the name of a POSTSCRIPT font with a bitmap font, as well as handling bold, italic, and other variants properly. yes bestie, it handles the variants. it's a whole family reunion and everyone showed up. 👑

🌸 the three output formats 🌸

the generated Macintosh files will be in one of three formats:

• MacBinary (default) — the no-thoughts-just-vibes default
• dfont (data fork resource file format, used by MacOS X)
• bare resource fork — and okay, heads up: with this one you have to know how to transform this into a real resource fork. it does not do that part for you. you're on your own, main character. 😭

🌈 the script situation 🌈

the program normally assumes that your fonts are in the roman script system. if this is not true you may specify a script directly. the program knows the names of a few scripts — greek, cyrillic, hebrew, arabic — which may be entered directly; otherwise you must know the Macintosh script number. iykyk. 🔢

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -dfont — Generate Macintosh files in dfont format. 🎀
• -macbin — Generate Macintosh files in MacBinary format. 📦
• -res — Generate Macintosh files in resource format. 🧚
• -script name — Specify the Macintosh script number. 🌍

✨ AUTHOR ✨

George Williams (gww@silcom.com). 💜

Manual page by Ziying Sherwin (sherwin@nlm.nih.gov) and R.P.C Rodgers (rodgers@nlm.nih.gov), Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, U.S. National Library of Medicine. 🫶

okay that's the whole page bestie, we ate and left no crumbs 💅 this version of the manual is dated 23 October 2002 and it lives in the UFOND(1) section of the General Commands Manual — so if you ever forget, just come back and reread. slay. 💖✨