BDFTOPCF(1)                     X11 5.4R3.00                     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 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 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.





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       -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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