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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

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 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.

       -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 computes 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(7)

AUTHOR

       Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium