1UNIBMP2HEX(1)               General Commands Manual              UNIBMP2HEX(1)
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NAME

6       unibmp2hex - Bitmap graphics file to GNU Unifont .hex file converter
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SYNOPSIS

9       unibmp2hex [-phexpage] [-iinput_file.bmp] [-ooutput_file.hex] [-w]
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DESCRIPTION

12       unibmp2hex  reads a bitmap produced by unihex2bmp before or after edit‐
13       ing, and converts it back into a Unifont .hex format file.  The  graph‐
14       ics  file  contains a block of 256 Unicode code points arranged in a 16
15       by 16 grid.  Each code point appears in a 32 by 32 pixel grid.  Charac‐
16       ters are 16 rows high, and 8, 16, or 31 (treated as 32) columns wide.
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OPTIONS

19       -p    Specify  that  the  code points will be assigned to the 256 block
20             space pagenum in the .hex file.   If  not  specified,  unibmp2hex
21             will  determine the appropriate block by reading the row and col‐
22             umn headers.  Note that "page" is not a  standard  Unicode  term.
23             It  refers  to  an  output  bitmap graphics page of 16 by 16 code
24             points.  If pagenum is greater than FF, the block  resides  above
25             the  Unicode  Basic  Multilingual  Plane. In that event, the .hex
26             file will contain eight digit hexadecimal code points rather than
27             the Unifont standard of four hexadecimal code points.
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29       -i    Specify the input file. The default is STDIN.
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31       -o    Specify the output file. The default is STDOUT.
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33       -w    Force  all  output  .hex  glyphs to be 16 pixels wide rather than
34             dual width (8 or 16 pixels).
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EXAMPLE

37       Sample usage:
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39              unibmp2hex -imy_input_file.bmp -omy_output_file.hex
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FILES

42       *.bmp or *.wbmp graphics files
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SEE ALSO

45       bdfimplode(1),  hex2bdf(1),  hex2sfd(1),   hexbraille(1),   hexdraw(1),
46       hexkinya(1),  hexmerge(1), johab2ucs2(1), unibdf2hex(1), unibmpbump(1),
47       unicoverage(1),   unidup(1),   unifont(5),   unifont-viewer(1),    uni‐
48       font1per(1),  unifontchojung(1),  unifontksx(1), unifontpic(1), unigen‐
49       circles(1),  unigenwidth(1),  unihex2bmp(1),   unihex2png(1),   unihex‐
50       fill(1), unihexgen(1), unihexrotate(1), unipagecount(1), unipng2hex(1)
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AUTHOR

53       unibmp2hex was written by Paul Hardy.
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LICENSE

56       unibmp2hex is Copyright © 2007, 2008 Paul Hardy.
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58       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
59       under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published  by  the
60       Free  Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
61       option) any later version.
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BUGS

64       No known real bugs exist, except that this software  does  not  perform
65       extensive  error  checking  on  its input files.  If they're not in the
66       format of the original bitmapped output from unihex2bmp, all  bets  are
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69       If the output file is for a "page" containing space code points and the
70       bitmap file squares for those code points  are  not  empty,  unibmp2hex
71       preserves the graphics as they are drawn.
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75                                  2007 Dec 31                    UNIBMP2HEX(1)
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