bdftopcf - convert X font from Bitmap Distribution Format
to Portable Compiled Format
bdftopcf [-pn] [-un] [-m] [-l] [-M] [-L] [-t] [-i] [-o
outputfile] fontfile.bdf
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. 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. Sets the font bit order to MSB (most significant
bit) first. Bits for each glyph will be placed in this
order; that is, the left most bit on the screen will be in
the highest valued bit in each unit. 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. Sets the font byte order to MSB first. All multibyte
data in the file (metrics, bitmaps and everything
else) will be written most significant byte first. 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. 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. (The behavior described
here for the -t switch is the default behavior. The switch
is maintained only for backwards compatibility and has no
effect.) This option inhibits the normal computation of
ink metrics. When a font has glyph images which do not
fill the bitmap image (that is, the "on" pixels do not
extend to the edges of the metrics) bdftopcf computes the
actual ink metrics and places them in the file; the -i
option inhibits this behaviour. By default bdftopcf
writes the pcf file to standard output; this option gives
the name of a file to be used instead.
The bdftopcf program 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 reformatting. This allows fast reading on the
appropriate machine, but the files are still portable (but
read more slowly) on other machines.
X(1X)
Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium
bdftopcf(1X)
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