Manual: bdftruncate

bdftruncate(1)					   General Commands Manual				      bdftruncate(1)

NAME
       bdftruncate - generate truncated BDF font from ISO 10646-1-encoded BDF font

SYNOPSIS
       bdftruncate threshold < source.bdf > destination.bdf

DESCRIPTION
       bdftruncate  allows one to generate from an ISO10646-1 encoded BDF font other ISO10646-1 BDF fonts in which all char‐
       acters above a threshold code value are stored unencoded.  This is often desirable because the Xlib API and X11	pro‐
       tocol  data structures used for representing font metric information are extremely inefficient when handling sparsely
       populated fonts.

EXAMPLE
       The command
	      bdftruncate 0x3200 < 6x13.bdf > 6x13t.bdf
       will generate the file 6x13t.bdf in which all glyphs with codes >= 0x3200 will only be stored unencoded	(i.e.,	they
       are encoded at codepoint -1).

SEE ALSO
       ucs2any(1)

AUTHOR
       bdftruncate was written by Markus Kuhn.

       Branden Robinson wrote this manual page, originally for the Debian Project.

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