BDFTOPCF(1)                                                                                                          BDFTOPCF(1)



NAME
       bdftopcf - convert X font from Bitmap Distribution Format to Portable Compiled Format

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

DESCRIPTION
       Bdftopcf  is  a  font  compiler  for  the X server and font server.  Fonts in Portable Compiled Format can be read by any
       architecture, although the file is structured to allow one particular architecture to read them directly  without  refor-
       matting.  This allows fast reading on the appropriate machine, but the files are still portable (but read more slowly) on
       other machines.

OPTIONS
       -pn     Sets the font glyph padding.  Each glyph in the font will have each scanline padded in to a multiple of n  bytes,
               where n is 1, 2, 4 or 8.

       -un     Sets  the font scanline unit.  When the font bit order is different from the font byte order, the scanline unit n
               describes what unit of data (in bytes) are to be swapped; the unit i can be 1, 2 or 4 bytes.

       -m      Sets the font bit order to MSB (most significant bit) first.  Bits for each glyph will be placed in  this  order;
               i.e., the left most bit on the screen will be in the highest valued bit in each unit.

       -l      Sets  the  font  bit  order to LSB (least significant bit) first.  The left most bit on the screen will be in the
               lowest valued bit in each unit.

       -M      Sets the font byte order to MSB first.  All multi-byte data in the file (metrics, bitmaps  and  everything  else)
               will be written most significant byte first.

       -L      Sets  the  font  byte order to LSB first.  All multi-byte data in the file (metrics, bitmaps and everything else)
               will be written least significant byte first.

       -t      When this option is specified, bdftopcf will convert fonts into "terminal" fonts when possible.  A terminal  font
               has each glyph image padded to the same size; the X server can usually render these types of fonts more quickly.

       -i      This  option  inhibits the normal computation of ink metrics.  When a font has glyph images which do not fill the
               bitmap image (i.e., the "on" pixels don't extend to the edges of the metrics) bdftopcf computes  the  actual  ink
               metrics and places them in the .pcf file; the -t option inhibits this behaviour.

       -o output-file-name
               By  default  bdftopcf  writes  the  pcf  file to standard output; this option gives the name of a file to be used
               instead.

SEE ALSO
       X(7)

AUTHOR
       Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium



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