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.

       -v      Print version information and exit.

SEE ALSO

       X(7)

AUTHOR

       Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium