TTF2AFM(1)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay bestie, this is the TTF2AFM(1) page from the General Commands Manual, and the star is ttf2afm — it generates afm files for TrueType fonts for a given encoding. ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ttf2afm [options] ttf-file

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

ttf2afm is the little tool that generates Adobe Font Metrics (AFM) files for TrueType (TTF) fonts so those fonts can be used with TeX. 🫶

It takes the name of a TrueType font file as a required argument. You can also hand it one or more options from the list below — but heads up, -i and -u are mutually exclusive, so pick a lane, bestie. 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -i — forces glyph names to print in the form `index'decnum. 🔥
• -u — forces glyph names to print in the form `uni'hexnum. 🦋
• -c name — writes encoding tables to the file name.eMN, where M is the platform ID and N is the encoding ID. 🎀
• -v — prints the program version. ⭐
• -e enc — encodes AFM output using the encoding vector from enc. 🌈
• -o outfile — outputs to file outfile instead of standard output. 💖
• -m num — uses Unicode mapping num in the font. 👑

Platform numbers can be one of 💫

• 0 — Apple Unicode
• 1 — Macintosh
• 2 — ISO
• 3 — Microsoft

Encodings can be 🧚

• 0 — Roman (if platform is Macintosh)
• 0 — Symbol (if platform is Microsoft)
• 1 — Unicode (if platform is Microsoft)

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• afm2tfm(1), afm2pl(1).
• FontForge (https://fontforge.org), LCDF TypeTools (https://lcdf.org).
• A closer look at TrueType fonts and pdfTeX, Hàn The Thành, https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb30-1/tb94thanh.pdf

👑 AUTHOR 👑

ttf2afm is part of pdfTeX and was written by Hàn The Thành. ✨

C.M. Connelly originally wrote this manual page for the Debian GNU/Linux system, and Karl Berry and others updated it. 💖

If you wanna talk about ttf2afm, the public discussion list is at https://lists.tug.org/pdftex. 🫶

💖 That’s the TTF2AFM(1) tea, bestie — source/version Web2C 2026, dated 25 January 2026. 🎀