title: Dump characters (glyphs) from TrueType font (TTF) into bitmaps
body: <p>I have a custom TrueType font (TTF) that consists of a bunch of icons, which I'd like to render as individual bitmaps (GIF, PNG, whatever) for use on the Web.  You'd think this is a simple task, but apparently not?  There is a huge slew of TTF-related software here:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/ttsoftware.html" rel="noreferrer">http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/ttsoftware.html</a></p>
  
  <p>But it's all varying levels of "not quite what I want", broken links and/or hard to impossible to compile on a modern Ubuntu box -- eg. <a href="http://fzort.org/bi/o.php" rel="noreferrer">dumpglyphs</a> (C++) and <a href="http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/files/" rel="noreferrer">ttfgif</a> (C) both fail to compile due to obscure missing dependencies.  Any ideas?</p>