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bdftopcf(1X)


X11R6


NAME

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


SYNOPSIS

  bdftopcf [-pn] [-un] [-m] [-l] [-M] [-L] [-t] [-i] [-o outputfile]
  fontfile.bdf


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; that is, 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 everything 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 everything else) will be written least
      significant byte first.

  -t  When this option is specified, bdftopcf will convert fonts into
      "terminal" fonts when possible.  A terminal font has each glyph image
      padded to the same size; the X server can usually render these types of
      fonts more quickly. (The behavior described here for the -t switch is
      the default behavior. The switch is maintained only for backwards
      compatibility and has no effect.)

  -i  This option inhibits the normal computation of ink metrics.  When a
      font has glyph images which do not fill the bitmap image (that is, the
      "on" pixels do not extend to the edges of the metrics) bdftopcf
      computes the actual ink metrics and places them in the .pcf file; the
      -i 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.


DESCRIPTION

  The bdftopcf program 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.


SEE ALSO

  X(1X)


AUTHOR

  Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium

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