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fontconverter(1x) [osf1 man page]

fontconverter(1X)														 fontconverter(1X)

NAME

       fontconverter - Converts user-defined characters (UDCs) into PCF format

SYNOPSIS

       fontconverter [-merge] [-w width] [-h height] [-udc udc_name] -font 'font_name' [-preload] preload_file

OPTIONS

       Specifies  that command output be merged with an existing PCF font file. When the -merge option is specified, the command does not create a
       BDF file. See also the entry for the -font option.  Specifies the width of the UDC font glyph. Use this option only when input  fonts  were
       created	with  a  width	smaller than the one specified for the cedit font-editing window.  Specifies the height of the UDC font glyph. Use
       this option only when input fonts were created with a height smaller than the one specified for the cedit font-editing window.  Specifies a
       non-default registry name when the -merge option is not specified. The file names for output files include base_name as the registry compo-
       nent, to which the fontconverter command automatically appends width and height specifiers and the and file types.   The  default  registry
       names for UDC fonts vary according to language, as follows:

	      JISX.UDC, for Japanese DEC.CNS.UDC, for Hanyu GB.UDC, for Hanzi When used with the -merge option, specifies the target font file for
	      the merge operation.

	      When used without the -merge option, specifies the font file whose header is used as a reference for generating the  header  of  the
	      standalone output file. Information in the reference font file is also used to determine default characters in the standalone output
	      file. (A default character is a glyph, usually a square, that is displayed when the font file does not contain a glyph for a  speci-
	      fied code.)

	      The reference_font parameter is specified using the format registry_width_height, for example:

	      -font  'JISX.UDC_*' Specifies the file name of the input UDC file in a nondefault position on the command line. Include the -preload
	      option only when specifying the preload_file parameter at a command line position other than last.

OPERANDS

       Specifies the input UDC font file for which PCF and BDF output formats are generated.

DESCRIPTION

       The fontconverter command creates PCF format font files for user-defined characters (UDCs) that are created by the font editor of the cedit
       utility. The PCF format font files allow UDCs to be displayed by X and Motif applications.

									  Note

       You can also use the cgen command to create standalone PCF and BDF format font files and to merge font information into existing PCF format
       files.  The advantage of using the cgen command for a merge operation is that you do not have to use the mkfontdir  and	xset  commands	to
       make information in the merged PCF file available to applications.

EXAMPLES

       The  following  example	merges	the  UDC  file,  udc_font.pre,	into  the  -*-140-*jisx0208*  font.   The  generated  output file is named
       jisx0208-kanji11_14_14.pcf: % fontconverter -merge -font '*-140-*jisx0208*' udc_font.pre The  following	example  creates  standalone  font
       files  in  both	PCF and BDF formats. The output files contain the converted result from udc_font.pre plus the default character and header
       information from font *-140-*jisx0208* but  have  the  charset  registry  name  deckanji.udc:  %fontconverter  -udc  deckanji.udc    -font
       '*-140-*jisx0208*' udc_font.pre

FILES

       Contains fontconverter error messages.

SEE ALSO

       Commands: cedit(1), cgen(1)

																 fontconverter(1X)

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MKFONTDIR(1)						      General Commands Manual						      MKFONTDIR(1)

NAME

       mkfontdir, fonts.dir, fonts.scale, fonts.alias - create an index of X font files in a directory

SYNOPSIS

       mkfontdir [directory-name ... ]

DESCRIPTION

       For  each  directory  argument,	mkfontdir  reads all of the font files in the directory searching for properties named "FONT", or (failing
       that) the name of the file stripped of its suffix.  These are converted to lower case and used as font names, and, along with the  name	of
       the font file, are written out to the file "fonts.dir" in the directory.  The X server and font server use "fonts.dir" to find font files.

       The  kinds  of  font  files  read  by  mkfontdir depend on configuration parameters, but typically include PCF (suffix ".pcf"), SNF (suffix
       ".snf") and BDF (suffix ".bdf").  If a font exists in multiple formats, mkfontdir will first choose PCF, then SNF and finally BDF.

       The first line of fonts.dir gives the number of fonts in the file.  The remaining lines list the fonts themselves, one  per  line,  in  two
       fields.	First is the name of the font file, followed by a space and the name of the font.

SCALABLE FONTS

       Because	scalable  font	files do not usually include the X font name, the file "fonts.scale" can be used to name the scalable fonts in the
       directory.  The fonts listed in it are copied to fonts.dir by mkfontdir.  "fonts.scale" has the same format as the "fonts.dir" file.

FONT NAME ALIASES

       The file "fonts.alias", which can be put in any directory of the font-path, is used to map new names  to  existing  fonts,  and	should	be
       edited  by  hand.   The	format is two white-space separated columns, the first containing aliases and the second containing font-name pat-
       terns.  Lines beginning with "!" are comment lines and are ignored.

       If neither the alias nor the value specifies the size fields of the font name, this is a scalable alias.  A font  name  of  any	size  that
       matches this alias will be mapped to the same size of the font that the alias resolves to.

       When  a font alias is used, the name it references is searched for in the normal manner, looking through each font directory in turn.  This
       means that the aliases need not mention fonts in the same directory as the alias file.

       To embed white space in either name, simply enclose it in double-quote marks; to embed double-quote marks (or any other character), precede
       them with back-slash:

       "magic-alias with spaces"     ""font name" with quotes"
       regular-alias		fixed

       If  the	string	"FILE_NAMES_ALIASES"  stands  alone on a line, each file-name in the directory (stripped of its suffix) will be used as an
       alias for that font.

FILES

       fonts.dir      List of fonts in the directory and the files they are stored in.	Created by mkfontdir.  Read  by  the  X  server  and  font
		      server each time the font path is set (see xset(1)).

       fonts.scale    List of scalable fonts in the directory.	Contents are copied to fonts.dir by mkfontdir.

       fonts.alias    List of font name aliases.  Read by the X server and font server each time the font path is set (see xset(1)).

SEE ALSO

       X(1), Xserver(1), xfs(1), xset(1)

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