bdftopcf (1)

Name

bdftopcf - convert X font from Bitmap Distribution Format to Portable Compiled Format

Synopsis

/usr/bin/bdftopcf [ -pn ] [ -un ] [ -m ] [ -l ] [ -M ] [  -L
] [ -t ] [ -i ] [ -o outputfile ] fontfile.bdf

Description

User Commands                                         BDFTOPCF(1)



NAME
     bdftopcf - convert X font from Bitmap Distribution Format to
     Portable Compiled Format

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/bin/bdftopcf [ -pn ] [ -un ] [ -m ] [ -l ] [ -M ] [  -L
     ] [ -t ] [ -i ] [ -o outputfile ] fontfile.bdf

DESCRIPTION
     Bdftopcf  is  a  font  compiler  for  the  X server and font
     server.  Fonts in Portable Compiled Format can  be  read  by
     any  architecture,  although the file is structured to allow
     one particular architecture to read  them  directly  without
     reformatting.   This  allows fast reading on the appropriate
     machine, but the files are still  portable  (but  read  more
     slowly) on other machines.

OPTIONS
     -pn     Sets the font glyph padding.  Each glyph in the font
             will have each scanline padded in to a multiple of n
             bytes, where n is 1, 2, 4 or 8.

     -un     Sets  the  font  scanline  unit.   When the font bit
             order is different from the  font  byte  order,  the
             scanline  unit  n  describes  what  unit of data (in
             bytes) are to be swapped; the unit i can be 1, 2  or
             4 bytes.

     -m      Sets  the  font  bit  order to MSB (most significant
             bit) first.  Bits for each glyph will be  placed  in
             this  order;  i.e.,  the left most bit on the screen
             will be in the highest valued bit in each unit.

     -l      Sets the font bit order to  LSB  (least  significant
             bit) first.  The left most bit on the screen will be
             in the lowest valued bit in each unit.

     -M      Sets the font byte order to MSB first.   All  multi-
             byte  data  in the file (metrics, bitmaps and every-
             thing else) will be written  most  significant  byte
             first.

     -L      Sets  the  font byte order to LSB first.  All multi-
             byte data in the file (metrics, bitmaps  and  every-
             thing  else)  will be written least significant byte
             first.

     -t      When this option is specified, bdftopcf will convert
             fonts into "terminal" fonts when possible.  A termi-
             nal font has each glyph image  padded  to  the  same
             size; the X server can usually render these types of
             fonts more quickly.



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User Commands                                         BDFTOPCF(1)



     -i      This option inhibits the normal computation  of  ink
             metrics.   When a font has glyph images which do not
             fill the bitmap image (i.e., the "on"  pixels  don't
             extend  to  the  edges of the metrics) bdftopcf com-
             putes the actual ink metrics and places them in  the
             .pcf file; the -t option inhibits this behaviour.

     -o output-file-name
             By  default bdftopcf writes the pcf file to standard
             output; this option gives the name of a file  to  be
             used instead.

     -v      Print version information and exit.

SEE ALSO
     X(5)

AUTHOR
     Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium


ATTRIBUTES
     See   attributes(5)   for   descriptions  of  the  following
     attributes:

     +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
     |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
     +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
     |Availability                 |x11/font-utilities           |
     +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
     |Interface Stability          |Committed                    |
     +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+























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