MirOS Manual: bdftopcf(1)


BDFTOPCF(1)	    UNIX Programmer's 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 refor-
     matting.  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 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 every-
	     thing 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 every-
	     thing else) will be written least significant byte
	     first.

     -t	     When this option is specified, bdftopcf will convert
	     fonts into "terminal" fonts when possible.	 A termi-
	     nal font has each glyph image padded to the same
	     size; the X server can usually render these types of
	     fonts more quickly.

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     -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 com-
	     putes 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.

AUTHOR

     Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium

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