1psf2bdf(1)                         PSF Tools                        psf2bdf(1)
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NAME

6       psf2bdf - convert part or all of a PSF Font file to an X11 BDF.
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SYNOPSIS

9       psf2bdf   [--first=FIRST]   [--last=LAST]   [--256]   [--fontname=NAME]
10       [--defchar=INDEX] [--descent=VALUE] [--codepage=CODEPAGE]  [--iso10646]
11       [INPUTFILE [OUTPUTFILE]]

DESCRIPTION

13       psf2bdf  saves some or all characters from a .PSF font to an X11-format
14       BDF font file. The resulting file should then be tidied up in an editor
15       such as xmbdfed(1) before being installed.
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OPTIONS

18       --codepage=x
19              Extracts only the characters in the given codepage (requires the
20              source PSF file to have a Unicode directory). Any characters  in
21              the  codepage  not  present  in  the source font are replaced by
22              blanks. The codepage can be specified by  number  or  name;  see
23              psfpages(1) for a list of acceptable codepage names.
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25       --first=n
26              Extracts characters starting at the specified character.
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28       --last=n
29              Extracts characters up to and including the specified character.
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31       --256  Equivalent to --first=0 --last=255.
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33       --fontname=name
34              Sets the XLFD name of the font being output.
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36       --descent=n
37              Sets  the descent (pixels between the character baseline and the
38              bottom of the character cell). If this  is  not  entered  it  is
39              assumed to be 1/4 of the character height.
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41       --defchar=n
42              Sets the number of the default character to use.
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44       --iso10646
45              If  this  option  is  present  and the source file has a Unicode
46              directory, the font will encode the ID of each character as  its
47              Unicode  position.  Otherwise the character's ID is equal to its
48              position in the file.
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50       If a codepage and a range of characters are both specified,  the  range
51       is applied to the subset of characters extracted by the codepage.
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BUGS

54       The BDF needs tidying up after generation, as mentioned above.
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SEE ALSO

57       xmbdfed(1),psfpages(1)
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AUTHOR

60       John Elliott <jce@seasip.demon.co.uk>.
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62Version 1.0.8                    21 June, 2008                      psf2bdf(1)