NAME

       unibmp2hex - Bitmap graphics file to GNU Unifont .hex file converter

SYNOPSIS

       unibmp2hex [-phexpage] [-iinput_file.bmp] [-ooutput_file.hex] [-w]

DESCRIPTION

       unibmp2hex  reads a bitmap produced by unihex2bmp before or after editing, and converts it
       back into a Unifont .hex format file.  The graphics file contains a block of  256  Unicode
       code  points  arranged  in  a  16 by 16 grid.  Each code point appears in a 32 by 32 pixel
       grid.  Characters are 16 rows high, and 8, 16, or 31 (treated as 32) columns wide.

OPTIONS

       -p    Specify that the code points will be assigned to the 256 block space pagenum in  the
             .hex  file.   If  not  specified, unibmp2hex will determine the appropriate block by
             reading the row and column headers.  Note that "page"  is  not  a  standard  Unicode
             term.   It  refers  to  an  output bitmap graphics page of 16 by 16 code points.  If
             pagenum is greater than FF, the block resides above the Unicode  Basic  Multilingual
             Plane. In that event, the .hex file will contain eight digit hexadecimal code points
             rather than the Unifont standard of four hexadecimal code points.

       -i    Specify the input file. The default is STDIN.

       -o    Specify the output file. The default is STDOUT.

       -w    Force all output .hex glyphs to be 16 pixels wide rather than dual width  (8  or  16
             pixels).

EXAMPLE

       Sample usage:

              unibmp2hex -imy_input_file.bmp -omy_output_file.hex

FILES

       *.bmp or *.wbmp graphics files

SEE ALSO

       bdfimplode(1),    hex2bdf(1),    hex2sfd(1),   hexbraille(1),   hexdraw(1),   hexkinya(1),
       hexmerge(1),  johab2ucs2(1),  unibdf2hex(1),  unibmpbump(1),  unicoverage(1),   unidup(1),
       unifont(5),    unifont-viewer(1),    unifont1per(1),   unifontchojung(1),   unifontksx(1),
       unifontpic(1),    unigencircles(1),    unigenwidth(1),    unihex2bmp(1),    unihex2png(1),
       unihexfill(1), unihexgen(1), unihexrotate(1), unipagecount(1), unipng2hex(1)

AUTHOR

       unibmp2hex was written by Paul Hardy.

LICENSE

       unibmp2hex is Copyright © 2007, 2008 Paul Hardy.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
       the GNU General Public License as  published  by  the  Free  Software  Foundation;  either
       version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

BUGS

       No  known  real  bugs  exist,  except  that this software does not perform extensive error
       checking on its input files.  If they're not in  the  format  of  the  original  bitmapped
       output from unihex2bmp, all bets are off.

       If  the  output  file  is  for  a  "page" containing space code points and the bitmap file
       squares for those code points are not empty, unibmp2hex preserves the graphics as they are
       drawn.

                                           2007 Dec 31                              UNIBMP2HEX(1)