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makeotf v2.0.94 May 23 2016
-f <input font>      
  Specify input font path. 
  Default is 'font.pfa'.

-o <output font>        
  Specify output font path. 
  Default is '<PostScript-Name>.otf'.

-b                      
  Set style to Bold. 
  Affects style-linking.
  Default is not bold

-nb                     
  Turn off the -b option, 
  if it has previously been turned on.

-i                   
   Set style to Italic.
   Affects style-linking.
  Default is not Italic

-ni                     
  Turn off the -i option, 
  if it has previously been turned on.

-ff <feature file>      
  Specify path to feature file. 
  Default is 'features'.

-fs                    
 If there are no glyph substitution rules 
 in the features file, 
 make a stub GSUB table.

-mf <FontMenuNameDB>    
  Specify path to FontMenuNameDB file. 
  Default is 'FontMenuNameDB'.

-gf <GOADB>             
  Specify path to GlyphOrderAndAliasDB file.
  Default is 'GlyphOrderAndAliasDB'. 
  If this is specified, 
  and the -r or -ga options are NOT specified,
  the effect is to use the Unicode assignments 
  from the third column 
  of the GOADB  file 
  without renaming the glyphs.

-r                     
  Set release mode. 
  This turns on subroutinization,
  applies the GlyphOrderAndAliasDB file, 
  and removes the word "Development" 
  from the name table Version (name.ID=5) string.

-nr                     
  sets the option option -r off,
  if it has been previously set.

-S                     
  Turn on subroutinization, 
  a form of compression 
  of the CFF font data.

-nS                     
  Turn off subroutinzation, 
  if it has previously been turned on.

-maxs <number>          
  Limits the number of subroutines generated 
  by glyph subroutinization 
  to the number. 
  Used for testing with rasterizers 
  that don't process
  subroutinziation correctly.

-ga                  
  Applies the GlyphOrderAndAliasDB file.

-nga                    
  Turn off the -ga option,
  if it has previously been turned on.

-gs                     
  Omit from the font any glyphs 
 not mentioned 
  in the GlyphOrderAndAliasDB file.
  Only works if -ga or -r is set.

-rev [version]        
  Without the optional version number, 
 increments the version number by 5.
 With an integer argument,
  it increments the minor version 
  by that number. 
  With a fractional argument, 
  it sets the version to the fractional argument; 
  the number must then be decimal 
  with three decinal places, 
  e.g. '1.045', not '1.45'.

-oldNameID4
Set Windows name.
ID=4 to the PS name,
and Mac = name.
ID=4 to Preferred Family + space +
Preferred Style name,
as in all releases of
MakeOTF before Dec 2010.

-newNameID4
Set Windows and Mac name.
ID=4 to Preferred Family + space +
Preferred Style name,
as in the current OpenType spec.
This is the default behavior,
and is needed only to override
a fontinfo or project file setting.

-osbOn <number>
Set a bit to 'on'
in the OS/2 table fsSelection field
at the specified bit index.

-osbOff <number>
Set a bit to 'off'
in the OS/2 table fsSelection field
at the specified bit index.
Note: if any of the bits 7,8,9 are set on or off,
they must all three be explicitly set.
See "New OS/2 Bits"
in the "MakeOTFUserGuide.pdf" file.

-osv <number>
Set the OS/2 table version to the specified
value. Must be greater than 0. If no bits >6
are specified for the OS/2 table fsSelection
field, then the default version number is 3;
else the default is 4.
-addn Replace the .notdef glyph in the source data
(if any) with a standard notdef glyph,
matching font weight and width.
-naddn Turn off the -addn option, if it has previously
been turned on.
-adds If the font is missing any of the Apple Mac
Symbol glyphs, create them, matching the font
weight and width.
Will be disabled for fonts without both a zero
and a lowerase 'x'.
-nadds Turn off the -adds option, if it has previously
been turned on.
-serif Specify that any added glyph use the serif
built-in multiple master glyph data.
-sans Specify that any added glyphs will use the
sans-serif built-in multiple master glyph data.
-cs Override the heuristics, and specify the
ScriptID for the Macintosh 'cmap' subtable;
CID-keyed fonts only.
-cl Override the heuristics, and specify the
LanguageID for the Macintosh 'cmap' subtable;
CID-keyed fonts only.
-cm <path> Path to the Macintosh CMap resource; CID-keyed
fonts only.
-ch <path> Path to the UTF-32 CMap resource for horizontal
glyphs; CID-keyed fonts only.
-ci <path> Path to the Unicode Variation Sequences
specification file; if present, a 'cmap'
subtable will be added with PlatformID = 0,
ScriptID = 5, and Format = 14. See MakeOTF User's Guide.
-dbl For a short list of glyphs, double map them to
two Unicode values if there is no other glyph
mapped from the same Unicode value. This used to
be default behaviour for makeotf. The glyph
list is as follows:

Delta (U+2206, U+0394)
Omega (U+2126, U+03A9)
Scedilla (U+015E, U+F6C1)
Tcommaaccent (U+0162, U+021A)
fraction (U+2044, U+2215)
hyphen (U+002D, U+00AD)
macron (U+00AF, U+02C9)
mu (U+00B5, U+03BC)
periodcentered (U+00B7, U+2219)
scedilla (U+015F, U+F6C2)
space (U+0020, U+00A00)
tcommaaccent (U+0163, U+021B)

-dcs Set OS/2.DefaultChar to the Unicode value for
'space' rather than '.notdef'. The latter is
correct by the OT spec, but QuarkXPress 6.5
requires the former in order to print OTF/CFF
fonts.
-fi [<path>] Path to the fontinfo file. If no path is given,
the default is to look for first 'fontinfo', then
'cidfontinfo', in the current directory. Used
to set some default values. This are
overridden by any conflicting settings in the
project file and then by command-line options.
This option is processed before any others, so
if the path is relative, it is relative to the
current working directory. All other relative
paths are relative so the source font's parent
directory.
-fp [<path>] Path to the project file. If no path is given,
the default is 'current.fpr'; If used, it sets
default options that can be overridden by
command-line options.
-sp [<path>] Save the current options to the project file
named in the "-fp" option; not needed unless
you specified a name other than 'current.fpr'.
If you supply the optional path argument, then
options are saved to that file.
-cn As a post-processing step, convert the CFF
table to a CID-keyed CFF that specifies the
Adobe-Identity-0 ROS. The resulting font
should be considered experimental, and may not
work in some applicatins.
-ncn Turn off converting the CFF table to a CID-keyed
CFF that specifies the Adobe-Identity-0 ROS;
otherwise has no effect.
-shw/-nshw Do/Do Not suppress warnings about unhinted glyphs.
This is useful when processing unhinted fonts.
-swo/-nswo Suppress CFF width optimization (use of defaultWidthX
and nominalWidthX). Useful when poking at charstrings
with other tools.
-stubCmap4 Build only a "stub" Format 4 'cmap' subtable, with
only two segments. This is useful only for special-
purpose fonts such as AdobeBlank, whose size is an
issue. Windows requires a Format 4 'cmap' subtable
to be present, but it is not used.

-omitMacNames/useMacNames Write only Windows platform menu names in name table,
apart from the names specified in the feature file.
-useMacNames writes Mac as well as Windows names.

-overrideMenuNames Allow feature file name table entries to override
default values and the values from the font menu name DB
for name IDs. Name ID's 2 and 6 cannot be overridden.
Use this with caution, and make sure you have provided
feature file name table entries for all platforms.

-skco/nskco do/do not suppress kern class optimization by using left
side class 0 for non-zero kern values. Optimizing saves a few
hundred to thousand bytes, but confuses some programs.
Optimizing is the default behavior, and previously was the only option.

Note that options are applied in the order in which they are
specified: "-r -nS" will not subroutinize a font, but "-nS -r" will
subroutinize a font. See the document 'MakeOTFUserGuide.pdf' for the
format and contents of the fontinfo and project files.

MakeOTF parts.

MakeOTF now comes in two parts. One is the C program 'makeotfexe',
which requires that all input files be specified as command-line
parameters. This is the program that reads in all the data, and build
the final OpenType font. You can build OpenType fonts using only this
program.

The other part is the 'MakeOTF.py' Python script, which is invoked
indirectly by the command-shell script 'makeotf'. The script is a
wrapper for the 'makeotfexe', and does several useful things for you:

- Uses the 'tx' tool to convert the input font into the Unix Type 1
format that is required by 'makeotfexe'.
- Saves the parameters used for makeotfexe in a project file. This can
later be referenced by the single option '-fp', which saves a lot of
typing. It also allows saving standard settings for release end
development builds.
- verifies that the input files exist. This avoids crashes in
makeotfexe.

Project files.

Every time you run makeotf, it saves the options used to build the
font in a project file named "current.fpr". You can build the font
again with exactly the same options by using the option -fp, or use
most of the options by following '-fp' with additional options to set
different parameters.

Note that if you specify a project file other than "current.fpr", the
final set of parameters used will not be saved to the project file
unless you also specify the "-sp" option.