BDF2GDFONT(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation BDF2GDFONT(1)NAME
bdf2gdfont.pl - Convert X11 "BDF" fonts into a loadable font format for GD.
SYNOPSIS
% bdf2gdfont.pl courR12.bdf > courR12.fnt
DESCRIPTION
This script converts BDF-style X11 font files into a format that can be loaded by the GD module using the GD::Font->load() method. There
are a number of ways to obtain BDF fonts.
1. The font is already present on your system.
Some BDF fonts can be found in the standard X11R6 distribution. This script will automatically uncompress gzipped font files if their
extension ends with .gz (the gunzip program must be on your path).
2. From a font server.
The "fstobdf" utility, a standard X11 utility, will read a named font from the font server of your choice and return it in BDF format.
You can pipe it to bdf2gdfont.pl:
fstobdf -s fontserverhost:7100 -fn 8x16 | bdf2gdfont.pl > newfont.fnt
Use xlsfonts to find out what fonts are available. Most fonts will have long names like
-B&H-LucidaTypewriter-Bold-R-Normal-Sans-18-180-75-75-M-110-ISO8859-10.
3. Using the pcf2bdf utility.
Some fonts are only available in PCF (compiled) format. To obtain these, you can either turn on a font server and follow recipe (2),
or use TAGA Nayuta's pcf2bdf utility. This utility is available from http://www.tsg.ne.jp/GANA/S/pcf2bdf/ (page is in Japanese, but you
can find the download link).
Limitations
This font converter only works with fixed-width fonts. If used with a TrueType or proportional font it will die with an error message.
SEE ALSO
GD
AUTHOR
Lincoln Stein <lstein@cshl.org>, heavily adapted from bdftogd from Jan Pazdziora <adelton@fi.muni.cz>.
Copyright (c) 2004 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.12.1 2010-07-05 BDF2GDFONT(1)
Check Out this Related Man Page
FSTOBDF(1) General Commands Manual FSTOBDF(1)NAME
fstobdf - generate BDF font from X font server
SYNOPSIS
fstobdf [ -server servername ] -fn fontname
DESCRIPTION
The fstobdf program reads a font from a font server and prints a BDF file on the standard output that may be used to recreate the font.
This is useful in testing servers, debugging font metrics, and reproducing lost BDF files.
OPTIONS -server servername
This option specifies the server from which the font should be read. servername must be specified in one of the formats defined in
the Font Server Names section of X(7). If not specified, the server name in the FONTSERVER environment variable is used.
-fn fontname
This option specifies the font for which a BDF file should be generated.
ENVIRONMENT
FONTSERVER
The default server to use. The server name must be specified in one of the formats defined in the Font Server Names section of
X(7).
SEE ALSO xfs(1), bdftopcf(1), showfont(1), fslsfonts(1), X(7).
AUTHOR
Olaf Brandt, Network Computing Devices
Dave Lemke, Network Computing Devices
Jim Fulton, MIT X Consortium
X Version 11 fstobdf 1.0.3 FSTOBDF(1)
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