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| <header> |
| <title>Font Converter Utility</title> |
| <subtitle>Creating SVG fonts</subtitle> |
| <authors> |
| <person name="Vincent Hardy" email="vincent.hardy@eng.sun.com"/> |
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| <body> |
| <s1 title="Introduction"> |
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| <p>The True Type Font to SVG (<code>ttf2svg</code>) application lets you convert |
| some character ranges from the True Type Font format to the SVG Font format.</p> |
| <p>This page describes:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li><link href="#runningTheApplication">How to run the application</link></li> |
| <li><link href="#useCases">Usecases</link></li> |
| </ul> |
| </s1> |
| <anchor id="runningTheApplication" /> |
| <s1 title="Running the Font Converter"> |
| <p>If you are using the Batik binary distribution, type the following at the command line:<br/><br /> |
| <code>java -jar batik-ttf2svg.jar [options]</code><br /><br /> |
| If you are using the Batik developer distribution, type the following at the command line:<br/><br /> |
| <code>build ttf2svg [options]</code><br /><br /> |
| In both cases, the options are the same:<br /><br /> |
| <code>Options: <ttf-path> [-l <range-begin>] [-h <range-end>] [-ascii] [-id <id>] [-o <output-path>] [-testcard]</code><br /><br /> |
| Where:<br /></p> |
| <ul> |
| <li><code><ttf-path></code> specifies the True Type Font file containing the characters to be converted</li> |
| <li><code>[-l <range-begin>] [-h <range-end>]</code> specify the low and high value of the range of characters to be |
| converted to SVG.</li> |
| <li><code>[-ascii]</code> forces usage of the ASCII character map</li> |
| <li><code>[-id <id>]</code> specifies the value for the generated <code><font></code> element.</li> |
| <li><code>[-o <output-path>]</code> specifies the path for the generated SVG Font file</li> |
| <li><code>[-testcard]</code> specifies that a set of SVG <code><text></code> element should be appended to |
| the SVG Font file to visualize and test the characters in the SVG Font. This provides an easy way to |
| validate the generated SVG Font file visually</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>For example:<br /><br /> |
| <code>java -jar batik-ttf2svg.jar /usr/home/myFont.ttf -l 48 -h 57 -id MySVGFont -o mySVGFont.svg -testcard</code><br /><br /> |
| Will convert characters 48 to 57, i.e., '0' to '9', in the <code>myFont.ttf</code> file into their SVG equivalent in the <code>mySVGFont.svg</code> file, appending a test card so that the font can be visualized easily.</p> |
| </s1> |
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| <anchor id="useCases" /> |
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| <s1 title="Use Cases"> |
| <p>The True Type Font converter application is helpful to be able to embed font definitions in SVG files. This will |
| ensure that the SVG document will look exactly the same on all platform by not relying on system fonts.</p> |
| <p>Note that users of the tool should make sure that they have the right to embed the font before embedding it |
| in an SVG file. True Type Font files contain a flag that defines the 'embeddability' of a font and there are |
| tools for checking that flag.</p> |
| </s1> |
| </body> |
| </document> |
