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showsnf - display contents of an SNF file
showsnf [-v] [-g]
[-m] [-M] [-l] [-L] [-p#] [-u#]
The showsnf utility displays the contents
of font files in the Server Natural Format produced by bsdtosnf. It is
usually only to verify that a font file hasn’t been corrupted or to convert
the individual glyphs into arrays of characters for proofreading or for
conversion to some other format.
- -v
- This option indicates that character
bearings and sizes should be printed.
- -g
- This option indicates that character
glyph bitmaps should be printed.
- -m
- This option indicates that the bit order
of the font is MSBFirst (most significant bit first).
- -l
- This option indicates
that the bit order of the font is LSBFirst (least significant bit first).
- -M
- This option indicates that the byte order of the font is MSBFirst (most
significant byte first).
- -L
- This option indicates that the byte order of
the font is LSBFirst (least significant byte first).
- -p#
- This option specifies
the glyph padding of the font (# is a number).
- -u#
- This option specifies
the scanline unit of the font (# is a number).
bdftosnf(1)
There
is no way to just print out a single glyph.
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Institute of Technology.
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