Manual: bdftopcf

BDFTOPCF(1)					   General Commands Manual					 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	 re‐
       formatting.   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	 or‐
	       der; 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	 ac‐
	       tual 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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