bdf2gdfont.pl - Convert X11 "BDF" fonts into a loadable font format
for GD.
% bdf2gdfont.pl courR12.bdf > courR12.fnt
This script converts BDF-style X11 font files into a format that can be loaded
by the GD module using the GD::Font->
load() method. There are a
number of ways to obtain BDF fonts.
- 1. The font is already present on your system.
- Some BDF fonts can be found in the standard X11R6
distribution. This script will automatically uncompress gzipped font files
if their extension ends with .gz (the gunzip program must be on your
path).
- 2. From a font server.
- The "fstobdf" utility, a standard X11 utility,
will read a named font from the font server of your choice and return it
in BDF format. You can pipe it to bdf2gdfont.pl:
fstobdf -s fontserverhost:7100 -fn 8x16 | bdf2gdfont.pl > newfont.fnt
Use xlsfonts to find out what fonts are available. Most fonts will have long
names like
-B&H-LucidaTypewriter-Bold-R-Normal-Sans-18-180-75-75-M-110-ISO8859-10.
- 3. Using the pcf2bdf utility.
- Some fonts are only available in PCF (compiled) format. To
obtain these, you can either turn on a font server and follow recipe (2),
or use TAGA Nayuta's pcf2bdf utility. This utility is available from
http://www.tsg.ne.jp/GANA/S/pcf2bdf/ (page is in Japanese, but you can
find the download link).
This font converter only works with fixed-width fonts. If used with a TrueType
or proportional font it will die with an error message.
GD
Lincoln Stein <
[email protected]>, heavily adapted from bdftogd from Jan
Pazdziora <
[email protected]>.
Copyright (c) 2004 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.