UNIBMP2HEX(1)						      General Commands Manual						     UNIBMP2HEX(1)

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

       unibmp2hex [-phexpage] [-iinput_file] [-ooutput_file] [-w]

DESCRIPTION

       unibmp2hex reads a bitmap produced by unihex2bmp before or after editing, and converts it back into a Unifont .hex format file.	The graph-
       ics file contains a block of 256 Unicode code points arranged in a 16 by 16 grid.  Each code point appears in a 32 by 32 pixel grid.  Char-
       acters are either 16 rows by 8 columns, or 16 rows by 16 columns.

OPTIONS

       -ppagenum   Specify  that  the  code points will be assigned to the 256 block space pagenum in the .hex file.  If not specified, unibmp2hex
		   will determine the appropriate block by reading the row and column headers.	Note that "page" is not a standard  Unicode  term.
		   It  refers  to  an output bitmap graphics page of 16 by 16 code points.  If pagenum is greater than FF, the block resides above
		   the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane. In that event, the .hex file will contain eight digit hexadecimal code points rather than
		   the Unifont standard of four hexadecimal code points.

       -i	   Specify the input file. The default is stdin.

       -o	   Specify the output file. The default is stdout.

       -w	   Force all output .hex glyphs to be 16 pixels wide rather than dual width (8 or 16 pixels).

       Sample usage:

       unibmp2hex -imy_input_file.bmp -omy_output_file.hex

FILES

       *.bmp or *.wbmp graphics files

SEE ALSO

       bdfimplode(1),  hex2bdf(1), hex2bdf-split(1), hex2sfd(1), hexbraille(1), hexdraw(1), hexmerge(1), johab2ucs2(1), unicoverage(1), unidup(1),
       unihex2bmp(1), unipagecount(1), uniunmask(1)

AUTHOR

       unibmp2hex was written by Paul Hardy.

LICENSE

       unibmp2hex is Copyright (C) 2007, 2008 Paul Hardy, and is released under version 2 of the GNU General Public License, or (at your option) a
       later version.

BUGS

       No  known  real	bugs exist, except that this software does not perform extensive error checking on its input files.  If they're not in the
       format of the original bitmapped output from unihex2bmp, all bets are off.

       If the output file is for a "page" containing space code points and the bitmap file squares for those code points are not empty, unibmp2hex
       preserve  the  graphics as they are drawn.  They will be removed later using uniunmask, with spaces of the appropriate width from a substi-
       tutes.hex file.

								    2007 Dec 31 						     UNIBMP2HEX(1)