TITLE

hackos2 - edit the OS/2 table in a TrueType Font

SYNOPSIS

HACKOS2 [-c hex] [-d directory] [-f fsSelection] [-p hex] [-q]
        [-t num] [-u hex] [-w width] <infile> <outfile>

OPTIONS

Hacks the OS/2 table of a ttf file copying from infile to outfile. -c change codepage information (a 64 bit hex number) -d specifies output directory for processing multiple files. In which case <outfile> is not used and <infile> may be a list including wildcards. -f fsSelection value (16 bit hex) (e.g. 4240 for Thai fonts) -n sets usFirstCharIndex given a hex value -p change panose info (10 bytes of hex in reverse order: 0A090807060504030201) -q Quiet mode (do not list names as they are processed) -t Sets fsType (embedding) information (decimal) -u change unicode info (a 128 bit hex number) -v sets vendor tag to the first 4 chars of the string -w set average char width (decimal) -x sets usLastCharIndex given a hex value

For example, to convert a Win3.1 ANSI font to Win95 use the following: hackos2 -c01 -u03 old.ttf new.ttf or for a Symbol font use: hackos2 -c80000000 -u0 old.ttf new.ttf Or to revert: hackos2 -cnone other.ttf new.ttf

AUTHOR

Martin Hosken Martin_Hosken@sil.org (see CONTRIBUTORS for other authors).

LICENSING

Copyright (c) 1998-2013, SIL International (http://www.sil.org)

This script is released under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0. For details, see the full text of the license in the file LICENSE.