BDFTOPCF(1)                                           BDFTOPCF(1)


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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