NAME

       unihex2bmp - GNU Unifont .hex file to bitmap graphics file converter

SYNOPSIS

       unihex2bmp [-phexpage] [-iinput_file.hex] [-ooutput_file.bmp] [-f] [-w]

DESCRIPTION

       unihex2bmp  reads a GNU Unifont .hex file Unicode page of 256 code points and converts the
       page into a Microsoft Windows Bitmap (.bmp) or Wireless Bitmap (.wbmp) file.   The  bitmap
       file  displays  the glyphs of a Unicode block of 256 code points in a 32 by 32 pixel grid.
       The glyphs themselves must be 16 rows high, and 8, 16, 24, or 31 (encoded as  32)  columns
       wide. The default page is 0; that is, the range U+0000 through U+00FF.

       The  bitmap can be printed.  It can also be edited with a bitmap editor.  An edited bitmap
       can then be re-converted into a GNU Unifont .hex file with the unibmp2hex command.

OPTIONS

       -p    Extract page hexpage from the .hex file.  The  default  is  Page  0  (Unicode  range
             U+0000 through U+00FF).  Note that "page" is not a standard Unicode term.  It refers
             to an output bitmap graphics page of 16 by 16 code points.

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

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

       -f    "Flip" (transpose) the grid, swapping rows and columns  from  the  Unicode  standard
             orientation.

       -w    Produce a Wireless Bitmap format file instead of a Microsoft Windows Bitmap file.

EXAMPLE

       Sample usage:

              unihex2bmp -imy_input_file.hex -omy_output_file.bmp

FILES

       *.hex GNU Unifont font files

SEE ALSO

       bdfimplode(1), hex2bdf(1), hex2otf(1), hex2sfd(1), hexbraille(1), hexdraw(1), hexkinya(1),
       hexmerge(1),    johab2syllables(1),    johab2ucs2(1),    unibdf2hex(1),     unibmp2hex(1),
       unibmpbump(1),   unicoverage(1),   unidup(1),  unifont(5),  unifont-johab631(5),  unifont-
       viewer(1),  unifont1per(1),  unifontchojung(1),  unifontksx(1),   unifontpic(1),   unigen-
       hangul(1),  unigencircles(1),  unigenwidth(1), unihex2png(1), unihexfill(1), unihexgen(1),
       unihexpose(1), unihexrotate(1), unijohab2html(1), unipagecount(1), unipng2hex(1)

AUTHOR

       unihex2bmp was written by Paul Hardy.

LICENSE

       unihex2bmp is Copyright © 2007 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 GNU Unifont
       .hex file, all bets are off.  Lines can be terminated either with line feed,  or  carriage
       return plus line feed.

                                           2007 Dec 31                              UNIHEX2BMP(1)