bdftopcf

BDFTOPCF(1)							  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 reformatting.  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	 dif-
	       ferent 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 writ-
	       ten 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 writ-
	       ten 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.

SEE ALSO
       X(7x)

AUTHOR
       Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium



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