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NAME
bdftopcf - convert font from Bitmap Distribution Format to
Portable Compiled Format
SYNOPSIS
bdftopcf [-option ...] font-file.bdf
DESCRIPTION
Bdftopcf is the release 5 font compiler. 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 multi-
ple 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 con-
vert 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
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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 stan-
dard output; this option gives the name of a file
to be used instead.
SEE ALSO
X(1)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1991, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
See X(1) for a full statement of rights and permissions.
AUTHOR
Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium
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