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bdftopcf - convert font from Bitmap Distribution Format to Portable
Compiled Format
bdftopcf [-option ...] font-file.bdf
Bdftopcf
is the release 5 font compiler. 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.
- -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.
X11(7)
Copyright 1991, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.
See X11(7)
for a full statement of rights and permissions.
Keith Packard,
MIT X Consortium
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