bdftopcf(1X)bdftopcf(1X)NAMEbdftopcf - convert X font from Bitmap Distribution Format to Portable
Compiled Format
SYNOPSISbdftopcf [-pn] [-un] [-m] [-l] [-M] [-L] [-t] [-i] [-o outputfile]
fontfile.bdf
OPTIONS
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.
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. Sets
the font bit order to MSB (most significant bit) first. Bits for each
glyph will be placed in this order; that is, the left most bit on the
screen will be in the highest valued bit in each unit. 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. Sets the
font byte order to MSB first. All multi-byte data in the file (met‐
rics, bitmaps and everything else) will be written most significant
byte first. 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. 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. (The behavior
described here for the -t switch is the default behavior. The switch is
maintained only for backwards compatibility and has no effect.) This
option inhibits the normal computation of ink metrics. When a font has
glyph images which do not fill the bitmap image (that is, the "on" pix‐
els do not extend to the edges of the metrics) bdftopcf computes the
actual ink metrics and places them in the file; the -i option inhibits
this behaviour. By default bdftopcf writes the pcf file to standard
output; this option gives the name of a file to be used instead.
DESCRIPTION
The bdftopcf program is a font compiler for the X server and font
server. Fonts in Portable Compiled Format can be read by any architec‐
ture, although the file is structured to allow one particular architec‐
ture 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.
SEE ALSOX(1X)AUTHOR
Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium
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