BDFTOPCF(1)                    AIX                    BDFTOPCF(1)



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

     SYNOPSIS
          bbbbddddffffttttooooppppccccffff [-option ...] font-file.bdf

     DESCRIPTION
          _B_d_f_t_o_p_c_f is the release 5 font compiler.  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
          ----pppp_n     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.

          ----uuuu_n     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.

          ----mmmm      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.

          ----llll      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.

          ----MMMM      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.

          ----LLLL      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.

          ----tttt      When this option is specified, _b_d_f_t_o_p_c_f 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.

          ----iiii      This option inhibits the normal computation of ink
                  metrics.  When a font has glyph images which do not


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                  fill the bitmap image (i.e. the "on" pixels don't
                  extend to the edges of the metrics) _b_d_f_t_o_p_c_f com-
                  putes the actual ink metrics and places them in the
                  .pcf file; the -t option inhibits this behaviour.

          ----oooo <<<<oooouuuuttttppppuuuutttt----ffffiiiilllleeee----nnnnaaaammmmeeee>>>>
                  By default _b_d_f_t_o_p_c_f writes the pcf file to standard
                  output; this option gives the name of a file to be
                  used instead.

     SEE ALSO
          X(1)

     COPYRIGHT
          Copyright 1991, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
          See _X(_1) for a full statement of rights and permissions.

     AUTHOR
          Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium




































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