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 NAME
      xfd - font displayer for X

 SYNOPSIS
      xfd [-options ...] -fn fontname

 OPTIONS
      Xfd accepts all of the standard toolkit command line options along
      with the additional options listed below:

      -fn font
              This option specifies the font to be displayed.

      -box    This option indicates that a box outlining the area that would
              be filled with background color by an ImageText request.

      -center This option indicates that each glyph should be centered in
              its grid.

      -start number
              This option specifies the glyph index of the upper left hand
              corner of the grid.  This is used to view characters at
              arbitrary locations in the font.  The default is 0.

      -bc color
              This option specifies the color to be used if ImageText boxes
              are drawn.

 DESCRIPTION
      The xfd utility creates a window containing the name of the font being
      displayed, a row of command buttons, several lines of text for
      displaying character metrics, and a grid containing one glyph per
      cell.  The characters are shown in increasing order from left to
      right, top to bottom.  The first character displayed at the top left
      will be character number 0 unless the -start option has been supplied
      in which case the character with the number given in the -start option
      will be used.

      The characters are displayed in a grid of boxes, each large enough to
      hold any single character in the font.  Each character glyph is drawn
      using the PolyText16 request (used by the Xlib routine XDrawString16).
      If the -box option is given, a rectangle will be drawn around each
      character, showing where an ImageText16 request (used by the Xlib
      routine XDrawImageString16) would cause background color to be
      displayed.

      The origin of each glyph is normally set so that the character is
      drawn in the upper left hand corner of the grid cell.  However, if a
      glyph has a negative left bearing or an unusually large ascent,
      descent, or right bearing (as is the case with cursor font), some
      character may not appear in their own grid cells.  The -center option


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      may be used to force all glyphs to be centered in their respective
      cells.

      All the characters in the font may not fit in the window at once.  To
      see the next page of glyphs, press the Next button at the top of the
      window.  To see the previous page, press Prev.  To exit xfd, press
      Quit.

      Individual character metrics (index, width, bearings, ascent and
      descent) can be displayed at the top of the window by pressing on the
      desired character.

      The font name displayed at the top of the window is the full name of
      the font, as determined by the server.  See xlsfonts for ways to
      generate lists of fonts, as well as more detailed summaries of their
      metrics and properties.

 X DEFAULTS
      To be written.

 SEE ALSO
      X(1), xlsfonts(1), xrdb(1)

 BUGS
      The program should skip over pages full of non-existent characters.

 COPYRIGHT
      Copyright 1989, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
      See X(1) for a full statement of rights and permissions.

 AUTHOR
      Jim Fulton, MIT X Consortium; previous program of the same name by
      Mark Lillibridge, MIT Project Athena.




















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