showfont - font dumper for X font server
showfont [ -options ... ] -fn pattern
SHOWFONT(1) General Commands Manual SHOWFONT(1) NAME showfont - font dumper for X font server SYNOPSIS showfont [ -options ... ] -fn pattern DESCRIPTION Showfont displays data about a font that matches the given pattern. The information shown includes font information, font properties, char- acter metrics, and character bitmaps. The wildcard character "*" can be used to match any sequence of charac- ters (including none) in the font name, and "?" can be used to match any single character. The "*" and "?" characters must be quoted to prevent them from being expanded by the shell. If no pattern is given, "*" is assumed. OPTIONS -server servername The X font server to contact. servername must be specified in one of the formats defined in the Font Server Names section of X(7). If not specified, the server name in the FONTSERVER environment variable is used. -fn name The font to display. -lsb The bit order of the font should be requested as LSBFirst (least significant bit first). -msb The bit order of the font should be requested as MSBFirst (most significant bit first). -LSB The byte order of the font should be requested as LSBFirst (least significant byte first). -MSB The byte order of the font should be requested as MSBFirst (most significant byte first). -ext[ents_only] Only the character extents should be displayed, but not the bitmaps. -start char The start of the range of the characters to display (char is a number). -end char The end of the range of the characters to display (char is a number). -unit n The scanline unit of the font (8, 16, 32, or 64). -pad n The scanpad unit of the font (8, 16, 32, or 64). -b[itmap_pad] n The bitmap padding unit of the font (0, 1, or 2, where 0 is ImageRectMin, 1 is ImageRectMaxWidth and 2 is ImageRectMax). -noprops Do not show the font properties. -version Print the program version and exit. ATTRIBUTES See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------+-----------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------+-----------------------+ |Availability | x11/xfs/xfs-utilities | +---------------+-----------------------+ |Stability | Volatile | +---------------+-----------------------+ SEE ALSO xfs(1), fslsfonts(1), fstobdf(1), xlsfonts(1), X(7). ENVIRONMENT FONTSERVER the default X font server to contact. The server name must be specified in one of the formats defined in the Font Server Names section of X(7). COPYRIGHT Copyright 1991, Network Computing Devices, Inc. See X(7) for a full statement of rights and permissions. AUTHOR Dave Lemke, Network Computing Devices, Inc. NOTES Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source- code-downloads.html. This software was built from source available at https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community source was downloaded from ['https://www.x.org/releases/individ- ual/app/fstobdf-1.0.6.tar.bz2', 'https://www.x.org/releases/individ- ual/app/fslsfonts-1.0.5.tar.bz2', 'https://www.x.org/releases/individ- ual/app/showfont-1.0.5.tar.bz2', 'https://www.x.org/releases/individ- ual/app/xfsinfo-1.0.6.tar.bz2']. Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at https://www.x.org. X Version 11 showfont 1.0.5 SHOWFONT(1)