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dxfc(1X) dxfc(1X) Name dxfc - BDF to PCF font compiler for X11 Syntax dxfc [options] [file] Description The dxfc font compiler reads a Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) font from the specified .bdf file (or from standard input if no file is specified) and writes an X11 portable compiled font (PCF) to standard output. Options -p# Force the glyph padding to a specific number. The legal values are 1, 2, 4, and 8. -s# Force the scanline unit padding to a specific number. The legal values are 1, 2, and 4. -m Force the bit order to most significant bit first. -l Force the bit order to least significant bit first. -M Force the byte order to most significant bit first. -L Force the byte order to least significant bit first. -w Print warnings if the character bitmaps have bits set to one outside of their defined widths. -W Print warnings for characters with an encoding of -1; the default is to silently ignore such characters. -t Expand glyphs in "terminal-emulator" fonts to fill the bounding box. -i Don't compute correct ink metrics for "terminal-emulator" fonts. See Also dxmkfontdir(1X), X(1X) X Window System: The Complete Reference to Xlib, X Protocol, ICCCM, XLFD, by Robert W. Scheifler and James Gettys, Second Edition, Digital Press, 1990, Appendix H: "Bitmap Distribution Format 2.1". dxfc(1X)
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BDFTOPCF(1) General Commands Manual 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 reformatting. 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
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Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium X Version 11 bdftopcf 1.0.2 BDFTOPCF(1)