BDFTOPCF(1) User Commands 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 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 everything 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 everything else) will be
written least significant byte first.

-t When this option is specified, bdftopcf will convert 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 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 standard output;
this option gives the name of a file to be used instead.

-v Print version information and exit.

SEE ALSO

X(7)

AUTHOR

Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium

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