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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 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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