bdftosnf(1) — USER COMMANDS

NAME

bdftosnf - BDF to SNF font compiler for X11

SYNOPSIS

bdftosnf [−p#] [−u#] [−m] [−l] [−M] [−L] [−w] [−W] [−t] [−i] [bdf-file]

DESCRIPTION

bdftosnf reads a Bitmap Distribution Format (bdf) font from the specified file (or from standard input if no file is specified) and writes an X11 Server Normal Font (snf) to standard output.

OPTIONS

−p# Force the glyph padding to a specific number. The legal values are 0, 1, 2, 4, and 8. A glyph pad of 0 will pad to the next larger power of 2 for glyphs that are not already a power of 2.

−u# Force the scanline unit padding to a specific number. The legal values are 1, 2, and 4.

−m Force the bit order to most significant bit first.

−l Force the bit order to least significant bit first.

−M Force the byte order to most significant bit first.

−L Force the byte order to least significant bit first.

−w Print warnings if the character bitmaps have bits set to one outside of their defined widths.

−W Print warnings for characters with an encoding of -1; the default is to silently ignore such characters.

−t Expand glyphs in terminal-emulator fonts to fill the bounding box.

−i Do not compute correct ink metrics for terminal-emulator fonts.

bdf-file The name of a bdf file.

EXAMPLES

The following can be used to compile a font for NCD X terminal servers: