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makebdf - create bitmap files from scalable F3 or X11/NeWS font
files
makebdf [ -a ] [ -A ] [ -e filename ] [ -f n ] [ -m|-M ] [ -p|-P ]
[ -s ] [ -v|-V ] [ -values ] [ -x ]
makebdf takes a list of Scalable
F3 Font Format outlines (.f3b files) or X11/NeWS Bitmap fonts (.fb files)
and generates ASCII bitmap fonts in either Bitmap Distribution Format (.bdf)
or the Adobe Font Bitmap (.afb) format and Adobe Font Metrics (.afm) files.
makebdf will not create bitmaps if screen protection for the F3 font has
been activated or if any form of protection exists and the requested size
is 24 or higher.
Options with * apply to F3 files only, they are ignored
for *.fb files.
- -a
- Produce font metric (.afm) files only.*
- -A
- Produce
Adobe Font Bitmap (.afb) format files.
- -e filename
- Specify an encoding map
file to be loaded along with the font. This option is only required if
the encoding specified by the font is other than ISO Latin-1, Symbol or
Dingbats.
- -fn
- Force the length of the base part of the output filename to
be at most n characters. The default is 32.
- -m
- Enable generation of .afm files
(the default).*
- -M
- Disable generation of .afm files.*
- -p
- Preserve existing files.
If -p is selected, then just before makebdf writes a file it will check
to see if it already exists. If it does, the file will be skipped. This
is useful in situations where you have some handbuilt .afb and .afm files,
and just want to fill in the missing ones.
- -P
- Don’t preserve existing files
(the default).
- -s
- Produce a synthetic encoding map file in <encodingname>.map.*
- -v
- Verbose: print messages indicating what’s going on (the default).
- -V
- Work
silently.
- -sizes
- A comma separated list of pixel sizes for which .afb files
should be generated. The default is 6,8,10,12,14,16,18 .*
- -x
- Produce bitmap
fonts in BDF2.1 format. Bitmap font file suffix will be .bdf. This is the default.
example% makebdf *.f3b
example% makebdf -e latin.map *.fb
example%
makebdf -p -4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,14,16,18,20,24 *.f3b
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