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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 either 16 rows high by 8
       columns, or 16 rows by 16 columns.

OPTIONS

       -ppagenum   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).

       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),     unicoverage(1),     unidup(1),    unifont(5),    unifont-viewer(1),
       unifontchojung(1),  unifontksx(1),  unifontpic(1),   unigencircles(1),   unigenwidth(1),   unihex2bmp(1),
       unihex2png(1), unihexfill(1), unihexgen(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)