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User Commands                                         BDFTOPCF(1)



NAME
     bdftopcf - convert X font from Bitmap Distribution Format to
     Portable Compiled Format

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/bin/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 every-
             thing 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 every-
             thing else) will be written least  significant  byte
             first.

     -t      When this option is specified, bdftopcf will convert
             fonts into "terminal" fonts when possible.  A termi-
             nal font has each glyph image  padded  to  the  same
             size; the X server can usually render these types of
             fonts more quickly.



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User Commands                                         BDFTOPCF(1)



     -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 com-
             putes 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
     X(5)

AUTHOR
     Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium


ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:

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    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Availability                | x11/font-utilities          |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Interface Stability         | Committed                   |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|

























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