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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 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
               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  possi-ble. possible.
               ble.   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(7)

AUTHOR
       Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium



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