1Pamtompfont User Manual(0)                          Pamtompfont User Manual(0)
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NAME

6       pamtompfont - Convert Netpbm image to Mplayer bitmap font file
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SYNOPSIS

10       pamtompfont [imagefile]
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12       All  options  can  be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix.  You
13       may use two hyphens instead of one.  You may separate  an  option  name
14       and its value with white space instead of an equals sign.
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DESCRIPTION

18       This program is part of Netpbm(1).
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20       pamtompfont  reads  a  Netpbm  image (PNM or PAM) and converts it to an
21       Mplayer bitmap font raster file.
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23       This is the original font format used by Mplayer  (for  subtitles,  on-
24       screen  messages,  etc.),  before it had the ability to use Freetype to
25       access standard fonts.
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27       The format was apparently an image format before Mplayer adopted it for
28       fonts,  but I have no idea where it came from or where else it might be
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31       An Mplayer bitmap font consists of a font descriptor  file  and  raster
32       files.   The  font  descriptor file identifies the raster files by file
33       name.  A raster file contains a single rectangular raster  image  which
34       contains  an arrangement of a bunch of glyphs.  Each glyph is a rectan‐
35       gular image and the font descriptor indicates where in  the  image  the
36       glyph  for  each  codepoint  is.   Every glyph in the font has the same
37       height, so the font descriptor just indicates the file position in  the
38       raster  file  of  the to left corner of the glyph, and the width of the
39       glyph in pixels.
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OPTIONS

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SEE ALSO

48       pam(1)
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HISTORY

52       pamtompfont was added to Netpbm in Release 10.43 (June 2008).
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