Manual: pamtompfont

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NAME
       pamtompfont - Convert Netpbm image to Mplayer bitmap font file

SYNOPSIS
       pamtompfont [netpbmfile]

       All  options  can  be  abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix.  You may use two hyphens instead of one.  You may
       separate an option name and its value with white space instead of an equals sign.

DESCRIPTION
       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       pamtompfont reads a Netpbm image (PNM or PAM) and converts it to an Mplayer bitmap font raster file.

       This is the original font format used by Mplayer (for subtitles, on-screen messages, etc.), before it had the ability
       to use Freetype to access standard fonts.

       The format was apparently an image format before Mplayer adopted it for fonts, but I have no idea where it came	from
       or where else it might be used.

       An  Mplayer bitmap font consists of a font descriptor file and raster files.  The font descriptor file identifies the
       raster files by file name.  A raster file contains a single rectangular raster image which contains an arrangement of
       a bunch of glyphs.  Each glyph is a rectangular image and the font descriptor indicates where in the image the  glyph
       for  each  codepoint is.	 Every glyph in the font has the same height, so the font descriptor just indicates the file
       position in the raster file of the to left corner of the glyph, and the width of the glyph in pixels.

OPTIONS
       There are no command line options defined specifically for pamtompfont, but it recognizes the options common  to	 all
       programs based on libnetpbm (See	 Common Options .)

SEE ALSO
       pam(1)

HISTORY
       pamtompfont was added to Netpbm in Release 10.43 (June 2008).

DOCUMENT SOURCE
       This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML source.  The master documentation is at

	      http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pamtompfont.html

netpbm documentation					 18 May 2008				  Pamtompfont User Manual(1)