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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 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 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
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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(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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