1BDFTOPCF(1)                 General Commands Manual                BDFTOPCF(1)
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NAME

6       bdftopcf  -  convert X font from Bitmap Distribution Format to Portable
7       Compiled Format
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SYNOPSIS

10       bdftopcf [ -pn ] [ -un ] [ -m ] [ -l ] [ -M ] [ -L ] [ -t ] [ -i ] [ -o
11       outputfile ] fontfile.bdf
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DESCRIPTION

14       Bdftopcf is a font compiler for the X server and font server.  Fonts in
15       Portable Compiled Format can be read by any architecture, although  the
16       file  is  structured  to allow one particular architecture to read them
17       directly without reformatting.  This allows fast reading on the  appro‐
18       priate machine, but the files are still portable (but read more slowly)
19       on other machines.
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OPTIONS

22       -pn     Sets the font glyph padding.  Each glyph in the font will  have
23               each scanline padded in to a multiple of n bytes, where n is 1,
24               2, 4 or 8.
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26       -un     Sets the font scanline unit.  When the font bit order  is  dif‐
27               ferent  from the font byte order, the scanline unit n describes
28               what unit of data (in bytes) are to be swapped; the unit i  can
29               be 1, 2 or 4 bytes.
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31       -m      Sets  the  font  bit order to MSB (most significant bit) first.
32               Bits for each glyph will be placed in  this  order;  i.e.,  the
33               left  most  bit on the screen will be in the highest valued bit
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36       -l      Sets the font bit order to LSB (least significant  bit)  first.
37               The  left  most  bit on the screen will be in the lowest valued
38               bit in each unit.
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40       -M      Sets the font byte order to MSB first.  All multi-byte data  in
41               the file (metrics, bitmaps and everything else) will be written
42               most significant byte first.
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44       -L      Sets the font byte order to LSB first.  All multi-byte data  in
45               the file (metrics, bitmaps and everything else) will be written
46               least significant byte first.
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48       -t      When this option is specified, bdftopcf will convert fonts into
49               "terminal" fonts when possible.  A terminal font has each glyph
50               image padded to the same size; the X server can usually  render
51               these types of fonts more quickly.
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53       -i      This  option  inhibits  the  normal computation of ink metrics.
54               When a font has glyph images which do not fill the bitmap image
55               (i.e.,  the  "on"  pixels don't extend to the edges of the met‐
56               rics) bdftopcf computes the actual ink metrics and places  them
57               in the .pcf file; the -t option inhibits this behaviour.
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59       -o output-file-name
60               By  default  bdftopcf  writes  the pcf file to standard output;
61               this option gives the name of a file to be used instead.
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SEE ALSO

64       X(7)
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AUTHOR

67       Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium
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