UNIHEX2BMP(1)						      General Commands Manual						     UNIHEX2BMP(1)

NAME

       unihex2bmp - GNU Unifont .hex file to bitmap graphics file converter

SYNOPSIS

       unihex2bmp [-phexpage] [-iinput_file] [-ooutput_file] [-f] [-w]

DESCRIPTION

       unihex2bmp  reads  a  GNU Unifont .hex file Unicode page of 256 code points and converts the page into a Microsoft Windows Bitmap (.bmp) or
       Wireless Bitmap (.wbmp) file.  The bitmap file displays the glyphs of a Unicode block of 256 code points in a 32 by  32	pixel  grid.   The
       glyphs  themselves  must  be  16  rows,	and either 8 columns or 16 columns wide. The default page is 0; that is, the range U+0000 throught
       U+00FF.

       The bitmap can be printed.  It can also be edited with a bitmap editor.	An edited bitmap can then be re-converted into a GNU Unifont  .hex
       file with the unibmp2hex command.

OPTIONS

       -ppagenum   Extract page pagenum from the .hex file.  The default is Page 0 (Unicode range U+0000 through U+00FF).  Note that "page" is not
		   a standard Unicode term.  It refers to an output bitmap graphics page of 16 by 16 code points.

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

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

       -f	   "Flip" (transpose) the grid so it matches the Unicode standard order.

       -w	   Produce a Wireless Bitmap format file instead of a Microsoft Windows Bitmap file.

FILES

       *.hex GNU Unifont font files

SEE ALSO

       bdfimplode(1), hex2bdf(1), hex2bdf-split(1), hex2sfd(1), hexbraille(1), hexdraw(1), hexmerge(1),  johab2ucs2(1),  unibmp2hex(1),  unicover-
       age(1), unidup(1), unipagecount(1), uniunmask(1)

AUTHOR

       unihex2bmp was written by Paul Hardy.

LICENSE

       unihex2bmp is Copyright (C) 2007 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  GNU Unifont hex file, all bets are off.  Lines can be terminated either with carriage return, or carriage return
       plus line feed.

								    2007 Dec 31 						     UNIHEX2BMP(1)