NAME
sfddiff - compare or merge two pfaedit sfd font
files
SYNOPSIS
sfddiff [-help]
[-ignorehints] [-merge outfile]
[-usage] [-version] sfdfile1 sfdfile2
DESCRIPTION
The program sfddiff compares two
pfaedit(1)-format
(sfd) files, specified as command line arguments, taking note of
the following:
- 1)
- The two fonts have different encodings.
- 2)
- Characters are present in one font but not in the other.
- 3)
- Characters are present in both fonts but have different sets of
outlines or references.
- 4)
- The hints are different (optionally suppressible).
OPTIONS
- -help
- Provide a description with a list of the available options.
- -ignorehints
- Suppress the reporting of hint differences.
- -merge outfile
- Store a merged version of the two fonts into the specified
output file. The merged data will contain everything from
sfdfile1 as well as any characters present in
sfdfile2 but not in sfdfile1. For any characters with
different outlines or references, the background of the the
character will contain the splines from sfdfile2 (sadly,
references can not be placed in the background).
- -usage
- Display the usage description.
- -version
- Display the current version (a six digit string containing the
date stamp of the source files).
SEE ALSO
pfaedit(1)
The HTML version of the pfaedit manual at:
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AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 2000-2002 by George Williams (gww@silcom.com). Manual page heavily
rewritten and modified to use standard -man(5)
macros by R.P.C. Rodgers (rodgers@nlm.nih.gov), 23 October
2002.