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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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NAME

       update-xfonts-traditional - generate traditional ASCII fixed-with fonts

SYNOPSIS

       update-xfonts-traditional --bdf-filter

       update-xfonts-traditional --process-pcf in.pcf.gz out.pcf.gz

       update-xfonts-traditional --process-fontdirs fontdir ...

       update-xfonts-traditional --process-fonttrees fonttree ...

DESCRIPTION

       update-xfonts-traditional  generates versions of X11 PCF fonts which have been edited to restore compatibility with traditional versions of
       US-ASCII, and to restore some of the glyphs to more traditional appearance.

MODES

       --bdf-filter
	      Takes a BDF on standard input and tries to generate an edited BDF on standard output.

       --process-pcf
	      Takes to PCF filename arguments; the input PCF is uncompressed, decompiled to a BDF, processed,  recompiled  to  a  PCF  and  recom-
	      pressed.

       --process-fontdirs
	      In each fontdir all files font.pcf.gz are processed, to generate where applicable corresponding trad--font.pcf.gz files.	The mtime,
	      ctime and inode number of the input files are recorded so that reprocessing the same directory later will be fast.

       --process-fonttrees
	      Each fonttree is searched for font directories which are processed as above.

       --update
	      Each built in font tree location is searched for font directories which are processed as above.

OPTIONS

       -R|--rules-path rulespath
	      Prepend rulespath to the path of directories from which to load glyph editing rules.

       --share-dir share-dir
	      Use share-dir instead of /usr[/local]/share/xfonts-traditional.

       --parallel|-j cpus
	      Use up to cpus cores for processing fonts.  The default is all the cpus available.

       --always-reprocess
	      When scanning font directories, always reprocess all the fonts, regardless of whether we think they have been done already.

       --no-tolerate-bad-fonts
	      Treat bad input fonts (eg, ones for which pcf2bdf crashes, or ones with other problems) as a fatal error.  Normally they	just  pro-
	      duce a warning.

FILES

       xfonts-traditional.done
	      In each font directory, records information about processed fonts, so as to optimise away unnecessary reprocessing.

       xfonts-traditional.log
	      In each font directory, records a lot of which fonts were processed and to a certain extent if not why not.

       /usr/share/fonts/X11 /usr/local/share/fonts/X11
	      Default font tree paths for --update.

       trad--font.pcf.gz
	      In any font directory, our output files.	Any other files matching this pattern may be overwritten or deleted.

EXIT STATUS

       0      All went well and there were no warnings.

       2      With  --bdf-filter and --process-pcf only, indicates that the input font did not need to be edited, or was not suitable for editing,
	      and has not been written out, so the output is incomplete, but this is not an error.

       any other
	      There were problems.

BUGS

       Only the 6x13 font conventionally called supported.  This package comes too late to rescue Unix from an incompatible change to its  charac-
       ter set.

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