acorn2sfd [-version] [-help] {acorndir ...}
acorn2sfd will take several Acorn RISC/OS font directories and convert them into FontForge's sfd files.
An Acorn RISC/OS font directory should contain two or three
files, one named Outlines*
and one named
Intmetric?
(the Intmetrics
file may
be omitted, in which case the advance widths will not be
known). acorn2sfd will read both files and generate an
sfd file from them (which FontForge
can turn into TrueType or PostScript).
If the Outlines
file ends in a digit
(Outlines0
) then a third file named
Base<digit>*
will be searched for in the
directory (if not found there then in
<acorndir>/../Encodings
), and if found
encoding information will be read from it. If not found then
the font will be assumed to be an initial subset of
Unicode.
-includestrokes
acorn2sfd normally
throws out the secondary stroked version of the character,
specifying this option will include it in the sfd file (you may
then want to invoke FontForge's Expand Stroke command on
it).
-help
will provide a mini description and will
list the available options.
-usage
will list the available options.
-version
will display the current version of
acorn2sfd (a six digit string containing the date
stamp of the source files).