defoma-hints(s)                                   defoma-hints(s)



NAME
       defoma-hints - generate font hints.

SYNOPSIS
       defoma-hints [-c] category fonts...

DESCRIPTION
       defoma-hints  is  a tool to help generating font hints. It
       asks various questions about the typeface of a font, reads
       information  from  a  font file, and outputs the generated
       hints to STDOUT in a hintfile format.

FILES
       /usr/share/defoma/libhint-*.pl
              Perl libraries which are prepared  for  each  cate-
              gory.  These are category-specific hints-generating
              program.

EXAMPLES
       1. Create a hintfile named type1.hints for type1 fonts  in
       /usr/share/fonts/type1.

       defoma-hints type1 /usr/share/fonts/type1/*.pfb > type1.hints

SEE ALSO
       defoma(a).



                          March  4, 2001          defoma-hints(s)