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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


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       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 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)




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  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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