bdftopcf - convert X font from Bitmap Distribution Format to Portable Compiled
Format
bdftopcf [
-pn ] [
-un ] [
-m ] [
-l ] [
-M ] [
-L ] [
-t ] [
-i ] [
-o outputfile ] fontfile.bdf
Bdftopcf is a font compiler for the X server and font server. 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.
- -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.
-
-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.
- -v
- Print version information and exit.
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Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium