bdftopcf

BDFTOPCF(1)                                           BDFTOPCF(1)


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

SYNOPSIS
       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 multi­
               ple 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  con­
               vert fonts into "terminal" fonts when possible.  A
               terminal font has each glyph image padded  to  the
               same  size;  the X server can usually render these
               types of fonts more quickly.

       -i      This option inhibits the normal computation of ink



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               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
               computes 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  stan­
               dard  output; this option gives the name of a file
               to be used instead.

SEE ALSO
       X(1)

AUTHOR
       Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium








































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