1BDF2GDFONT(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation BDF2GDFONT(1)
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6 bdf2gdfont.pl - Convert X11 "BDF" fonts into a loadable font format for
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10 % bdf2gdfont.pl courR12.bdf > courR12.fnt
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13 This script converts BDF-style X11 font files into a format that can be
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17 1. The font is already present on your system.
18 Some BDF fonts can be found in the standard X11R6 distribution.
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23 2. From a font server.
24 The "fstobdf" utility, a standard X11 utility, will read a named
25 font from the font server of your choice and return it in BDF for‐
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30 Use xlsfonts to find out what fonts are available. Most fonts will
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34 3. Using the pcf2bdf utility.
35 Some fonts are only available in PCF (compiled) format. To obtain
36 these, you can either turn on a font server and follow recipe (2),
37 or use TAGA Nayuta's pcf2bdf utility. This utility is available
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43 This font converter only works with fixed-width fonts. If used with a
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50 Lincoln Stein <lstein@cshl.org>, heavily adapted from bdftogd from Jan
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53 Copyright (c) 2004 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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55 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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