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 di-
rectly without reformatting. This allows fast reading on the appropri-
ate 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 differ-
ent 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.
-v Print version information and exit.
SEE ALSO
X(7)
AUTHOR
Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium
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