NAME

       bdftruncate - generate truncated BDF font from ISO 10646-1-encoded BDF font

SYNOPSIS

       bdftruncate threshold < source.bdf > destination.bdf

DESCRIPTION

       bdftruncate  allows  one  to generate from an ISO10646-1 encoded BDF font other ISO10646-1
       BDF fonts in which all characters above a threshold code value are stored unencoded.  This
       is  often  desirable  because  the  Xlib  API  and  X11  protocol data structures used for
       representing font metric information are  extremely  inefficient  when  handling  sparsely
       populated fonts.

EXAMPLE

       The command
              bdftruncate 0x3200 < 6x13.bdf > 6x13t.bdf
       will  generate  the  file  6x13t.bdf in which all glyphs with codes >= 0x3200 will only be
       stored unencoded (i.e., they are encoded at codepoint -1).

SEE ALSO

       ucs2any(1)

AUTHOR

       bdftruncate was written by Markus Kuhn.

       Branden Robinson wrote this manual page, originally for the Debian Project.